The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis

by Joel S. Baden

For well over two centuries the question of the composition of the Pentateuch has been among the most central and hotly debated issues in the field of biblical studies. In this book, Joel Baden presents a fresh and comprehensive argument for the Documentary Hypothesis. Critically engaging both older and more recent scholarship, he fundamentally revises and reorients the classical model of the formation of the Pentateuch. Interweaving historical and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300152639
• ISBN13: 9780300152630
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"