The Hexateuch Hypothesis: A History of Research and Current Approaches

Germany, Stephen

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“…While the traditional approach places it in the opposite collection [34,4], a prominent theory advocates the continuation of sources in the form of a six-book Hexateuch, with the books of Genesis through Joshua identified as a literary unit [35,36] based on the Documentary Hypothesis and newer alternative models. Therefore, it is plausible that the Pentateuch's redactor is also the redactor of the book of as the same be traced in both works [37].…”

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Inherent Twitter-like Structure of Classical Religious Sources

Volkovich¹,

Malka²,

Avros³

et al. 2022

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Classical religious texts remain an essential part of human culture due to their undiminished influence on the advancement of civilization. Although their entirely divine origin is questioned repeatedly, explicit or implicit quoting and adherence to their basic guidelines are fundamental in modern society. In this respect, these documents’ inner structure and linguistic style appear to be pivotal. This paper considers the topic from the standpoint of small textual patterns classified using deep learning methods, traditionally applied to analyze short textual material like tweets. We divide the considered documents into small sequential chunks imitating tweets and categorizing them, classifying an entire text. The proposed method demonstrates that the religious text collections correspond to stable ”Twitter”-like structures that adequately reflect stylistic properties. So, concise word combinations seem to be an inborn textual attribute that adequately outlines the proposed multi-source authorship. This approach differs from traditional methods of analyzing classical religious documents, which are based on the consideration and interpretation of relatively long templates. The case study consists of three famous collections of Mosaic authorship in the Old Testament (Hebrew), Pauline authorship in the New Testament (Greek), and Al-Ghazali authorship (Arabic). The obtained results go well with most previously expressed evaluations and complement them with new implications, particularly in the authorship of two famous manuscripts attributed to Al-Ghazali.

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Inherent Twitter-like Structure of Classical Religious Sources

Volkovich¹,

Malka²,

Avros³

et al. 2022

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“…Hensel (2019b);(Hensel 2018a, pp. 246-54).111 Häusl (2018);(Grohmann 2017; Ben Zvi and Edelman 2015); on the final redactions of the Pentateuch in this period see(Bührer 2019); or of the Hexateuch seeGermany (2018).…”

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Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles—New Insights into the Early History of Samari(t)an–Jewish Relations

Hensel

2020

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This article addresses the way the book of Ezra-Nehemiah on one hand and Chronicles on the other reflect the relationship between Samaria and Judah in the postexilic period. With regard to Ezra-Nehemiah, the focus is placed on Ezra 4:1–5, 6–23, 24, which evokes a particular image of the nature of the relationship between Samaria and Judah within the report of the construction of the temple in Ezra 1–6 that can function paradigmatically for the book as a whole. With regard to Chronicles, the focus lies on the theme of cult centralization, which became established in a particular manner through the reception of earlier tradition. The article concludes that both works, each in its own way, call forth critique of Samaria and the Samaritans in order to establish a separate Judean or Jewish group identity. The critique of the two works is dated to the late fourth or early third centuries BCE. As such, both are reckoned among the first witnesses heralding a shift in the perception of Samaria in biblical literature, namely toward a polemical and unequivocally negative perspective attested later in, for example, Josephus.

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The Hexateuch Hypothesis: A History of Research and Current Approaches

Cited by 2 publications

References 44 publications

Inherent Twitter-like Structure of Classical Religious Sources

Inherent Twitter-like Structure of Classical Religious Sources

Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles—New Insights into the Early History of Samari(t)an–Jewish Relations

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