Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch, Volume 2

L. S. Baker Jr. is Adjunct Professor of Old Testament in the Seventh-day Adventist Seminary at Andrews University.Kenneth Bergland is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies.Felipe A. Masotti is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Paraná Adventist College.A. Rahel Wells is Professor of Old Testament at Andrews University.

• List of Abbreviations Introduction L. S. Baker Jr., Kenneth Bergland, Felipe A. Masotti, and A. Rahel WellsPart 1: The Readability of the PentateuchChapter 1. Case Studies of Some Apparent Inconsistencies in the Pentateuch Roy E. GaneChapter 2. Contradiction, Coherence, and Composition Kenneth BerglandChapter 3. Sophisticated Narrative Technique of the Pentateuch Noel K. WeeksChapter 4. The Coherence and Internal Rationaleof the Priestly Legislation in the Pentateuch with Special Attention to the “Guild Offering” Richard AverbeckPart 2: The Dating of DeuteronomyChapter 5. Selective Literary Representation of Vassal Obsequiousness and Responsive Awareness in the Amarna Letters, the Hittite Treaty Prologues, and Deuteronomy 1–3 Felipe A. MasottiChapter 6. Borrowed Curses: The Loyalty Oath of Esarhaddon, Deuteronomy 28:20–44, and a Premonarchic Date for the Earliest Edition of Deuteronomy Mark Steven FrancoisChapter 7. The Tribes of Israel (Part 1): Their Significance for Assessing the Provenance of the Book of Deuteronomy Daniel I. BlockChapter 8. The Tribes of Israel (Part 2): Their Significance for Assessing the Provenance of Deuteronomy 33 Daniel I. BlockPart 3: The Dating of the PentateuchChapter 9. The Biblical Criticism of Ibn Hazm the Andalusian: A Medieval Control for Modern Diachronic Method Joshua BermanChapter 10. Questions Concerning the Covenant Code in Light of the Hazor Legal Fragments Richard S. HessChapter 11. Three Turning Points in Research History Toward a Farewell to the Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuch: How Strong Are They? Benjamin Kilch.rChapter 12. Direction of Dependence in the Animal‑Related Sabbath Laws in the Pentateuch A. Rahel WellsChapter 13. Did Postexilic Judaism Really Abandon Jerusalem and the Temple? A Discussion with Jean Louis Ska on the Absence of Zion Theology from the Pentateuch John S. BergsmaList of Contributors Subject Index Ancient Source Index

“This diverse collection of essays challenges both the status quo and cutting-edge theories in today’s Pentateuchal historical critical research. Its essays challenge oft unchallenged presuppositions related to the dating and literary coherence of the Pentateuch, offering a wide assortment of effective arguments engaging its non-Western literary coherence, literary reuse and dependence, ancient scribal and editorial practices, dialectical variation in diachronic linguistics, among other important topics.”—Neal A. Huddleston, Trinity International University