Traditions at Odds (2010 Choi), book

Traditions at Odds: The Reception of the Pentateuch in Biblical and Second Temple Period Literature (2010) is a book by John H. Choi.

Abstract

"Traditions at Odds explores the Pentateuch's literary influence on other biblical texts. There exist a number of content discrepancies between pentateuchal and non-pentateuchal texts that treat the same subject. Through a detailed analysis, the author argues that the discrepancies are not alterations of pentateuchal material, as is generally argued, but rather indications of independent traditions. Thus, much of biblical literature was written outside of the Pentateuch's purview. Corroborating evidence is found in literature from the Second Temple Period, which also exhibits a lack of conformity to the Pentateuch. After demonstrating this independence, this study explores its implications on the composition of biblical texts and the process of canonization. Marked by an interdisciplinary approach, the study incorporates recent theoretical developments in literary and ideological criticism, as well as ritual, historiography and textual citation. It not only provides a broader base of study, but serves to address a deficiency in biblical studies: most studies of intertextuality operate with little theoretical grounding, while studies in ritual or historiography are based on models from the late 19th/early 20th centuries."--Publisher description.

Editions and translations

Published in London [England] and New York, NY: T&T Clark International, 2010 (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 518).

Table of contents

Introduction and statement of purpose -- Methodology -- Critique of the linear model of composition -- Alternatives to a linear model -- Methodology -- A note about Second Temple period literature -- Festivals and holidays -- A theory of ritual -- Festivals and holidays in the Bible -- Pesach and Matsoth -- Sukkoth -- Sabbath -- Festivals and holidays in the Second Temple period -- Non-pentateuchal historical retrospectives -- The Bible and historiography -- Non-pentateuchal historiographic texts -- Psalm 78 -- Psalm 105 -- The plagues in Psalms 78 and 105 -- Psalm 106 -- Joshua 24 -- Ezekiel 20 -- Nehemiah 9 -- Historiography in the Second Temple period -- Ben Sira 44-45 -- The Genesis apocryphon -- The Liber antiquitatum biblicarum of pseudo-philo -- Competitive historiography of Jewish-hellenistic historians -- The Book of Jubilees -- The Pentateuch as Torah -- The role of literacy in the ancient world -- Direct citations of instruction -- Deuteronomic literature -- Prophetic literature -- Post-exilic historiographic texts -- Instruction in the Psalms and wisdom literature -- Competing conceptions of instruction in the Second Temple period -- A look ahead.

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