Joel Baden explores the history of the Pentateuch's literary composition, offering both detailed analyses of specific passages and broad theoretical and methodological reflections. His essays also serve as a record of the recent growth of the neo-documentary hypothesis in Pentateuchal scholarship.
In these collected essays, Joel Baden explores the history of the Pentateuch's literary composition. Including detailed analyses of specific passages as well as broad theoretical and methodological reflections, these essays offer a glimpse of both the mechanisms by which the Pentateuch came into being and the scholarly frameworks through which the Pentateuch is viewed. Spanning the first fifteen years of his career, this volume also represents a record of the recent trends in pentateuchal scholarship, especially the growth of the neo-documentary hypothesis.
Joel S. Baden
Born 1977; 2007 PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Hebrew Bible) from Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale University.
Source Criticism Literary Criticism Pentateuch Composition Literary History neo-documentary hypothesis