Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus: Hellenistic histories and the date of the Pentateuch
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Main Author: Gmirkin, Russell E. 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York T & T Clark ©2006
Series:Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies 433
Copenhagen international seminar 15
T & T Clark library of biblical studies
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-309) and indexes
Methodology and history of scholarship -- The documentary hypothesis -- Hecataeus of Abdera -- Aristobulus and the Septuagint -- Berossus and Genesis -- The table of nations -- Manetho and the Hyksos -- Manetho and the polluted Egyptians -- Nectanebos and Moses -- The route of the Exodus -- Date and authorship of the Pentateuch
Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus proposes a provocative new theory regarding the date and circumstances of the composition of the Pentateuch. Gmirkin argues that the Hebrew Pentateuch was composed in its entirety about 273-272 BCE by Jewish scholars at Alexandria that later traditions credited with the Septuagint translation of the Pentateuch into Greek. The primary evidence is literary dependence of Gen. 1-11 on Berossus' Babyloniaca (278 BCE) and of the Exodus story on Manetho's Aegyptiaca (c. 285-280 BCE), and the geo-political data contained in the Table of Nations. A number of ind
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 332 pages)
ISBN:0567134393
9780567025920
9780567134394

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