The Mosaic Tradition / / Frederick Victor Winnett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Victor Winnett, Frederick,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1949
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)

For some two hundred years, Old Testament criticism has wrestled with the problem of the Hexateuch. The commonly accepted view is based on the Wellhausen Hypothesis, which has held saw over the mids of scholars, save for a conservative few, for nearly seventy years. According to the theory of Wellhausen, the Hexateuch is a combination of fource literary sources, J, E, D, and P, with numerous additions and retouchings by the symbols Rje, Rd and Rp. Professor Winnett's view is that the Books of Exodus and Numbers constitute one primary source, the Mosaic Tradition, which has been supplemented and rearranged by P. Dr. Winnett shows that shortly after the fall or the Northern Kingdom in 722 B.C. the Southern Kingdom under Hezekiah took advantage of the extinction of its rival to issue a revised version of the national tradition.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Contents -- I. The Story of the Plagues -- II. The Tradition of the Oppression and of the Raising-up of a Deliverer -- III. The Tradition of the Law-Giving -- IV. The Tradition of the Tent of Meeting and of Moses' Father-in-Law -- V. The Tradition of the Wilderness Itinerary -- VI. The Tradition of the Ten Murmurings or Testings -- VII. The Corruption of the Mosaic Tradition by the Jerusalem Priests -- Appendix: The Original Form of the Mosaic Tradition -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scriptural Passages