Mirages in the Desert : : The Tradition-historical Developments of the Story of Massah-Meribah / / Roy E. Garton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Garton, Roy E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , 492
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVI, 316 p.)

The story of Massah-Meribah is a pluriform tradition within the Hebrew Bible. Part One of this book uses redaction analysis to assess diachronically the six reminiscences of this tradition within Deuteronomy (Deut 6:16; 8:15; 9:22; 32:13, 52; 33:8). The relative chronological relationship of these texts, and the tradition components they preserve, reveals a framework of five formative stages of this story's tradition-history from the perspective of the tradents responsible for the production of Deuteronomy. Part Two is a redactional study of the tradition's narratives in Exod 17:1-7 and Num 20:1-13. Special attention is devoted to the texts that anchor the Massah-Meribah narratives into the Pentateuch. In the end, Part Two not only corroborates the framework detected in Deuteronomy for the formative stages of the Massah-Meribah tradition, but it also carries broad implications for the formation of the Pentateuch in general and the Wilderness Narrative in particular.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Part I. Deuteronomy as the Foundation -- Chapter Two: Preliminary Considerations -- Chapter Three: The M-Mt’s Reminiscences within Deuteronomy’s Interior Prologue -- Chapter Four: The M-Mt’s Reminiscences within Deuteronomy’s Exterior Miscellaneous Epilogues -- Part II. Beyond Deuteronomy: The M-Mt in the Remainder of the Pentateuch -- Chapter Five: Toward Assessing the M-Mt Texts in the Remainder of the Pentateuch -- Chapter Six: The Non-P M-Mt Narrative in Exodus 17:1–7 and its Related Texts -- Chapter Seven: The Priestly M-Mt Narrative in Numbers 20:1–13 and its Related Texts -- Chapter Eight: Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of ancient sources