The Provenance of Deuteronomy 32 / / Paul Sanders.

• Superior document: Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies ; 37
• VerfasserIn: Sanders, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 1996.
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Series: Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies ; 37.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (478 pages)
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Chapter 1 The Song's Provenance in Previous Research /; Chapter 2 The Text and Its Structure /; Chapter 3 The Song's Provenance Re-examined /; Chapter 4 Evaluation /; Concordance Deut. 32:1-43 /; Abbreviations /; Selected Index of Scriptural References /; Index of Authors /; Index of Subjects /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9789004494718; 9789004106482
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Paul Sanders.

This study offers an extensive survey of previous literature dealing with the provenance of the song in Deuteronomy 32, a renewed discussion of its text and language as well as an analysis of its poetic structure with the help of a new method. The author tests the tenability of older theories and proposes a new theory based on systematic research into the intertextual links with other parts of the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical literature of the Ancient Near East. Separate sections are dedicated to the song's descriptions of the relationship between YHWH and the gods and to the identity of the hostile people to which the song refers. The author concludes that a pre-exilic date is extremely likely for the song in its entirety.