Contribution to Book
Narrative, Lists, Rhetoric, Ritual and the Pentateuch as a Scripture
Religion - All Scholarship
ORCID
James W. Watts: 0000-0002-4872-4986
Document Type
Book Chapter
Date
1-1-2016
Keywords
- Pentateuch,
- genre,
- inset genres,
- narrative,
- list,
- ritualized texts
Language
English
Disciplines
Description/Abstract
The Pentateuchʼs juxtaposition of different genres within a narrative framework provides some of the evidence for building source- and redaction-critical theories of the Pentateuchʼs literary history. Rhetorical analysis suggests, however, that such genre juxtapositions are characteristic of an ancient Near Eastern strategy of persuasion. The Pentateuchʼs inset genres, especially its lists of instructions and laws, generated most of its normative force that, together with its ritualization, led to its scripturalization as Torah.
Source
local input
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Citation Information
James W. Watts, “Narrative, Lists, Rhetoric, Ritual and the Pentateuch as a Scripture,” in The Formation of the Pentateuch: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Europe, Israel, and North America (ed. Jan Geertz et al, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016), 1135-45.
In The Formation of the Pentateuch: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Europe, Israel, and North America (ed. Jan Geertz et al, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016), pp. 1135-45.