REL 1004 : Test 2 Outline
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Genesis pentateuch deut josh former prophets 2 kgs. The open ending of the pentateuch: when the pentateuch ends, there are still a lot of questions. The readers are left wondering how the story would turn out if it were to continue. The theory of the deuteronomistic history (dtrh: the dtrh was once a separate work: deut-2kgs, dtr editors produced the dtrh ca. Exile: two literary strata in the dtrh, old (pre-exilic) materials, e. g. , josiah"s law book (deut 5-30), hero stories, cultic legends prophetic legends town lists, border descriptions, excerpts from royal annals and temple records, passages written by the dtr. Editors, especially: speeches by major characters, summaries of the history, the editors combined the old materials to produce a long continuous narrative. Test 2: they inserted passages of their own which interpret the history, those speeches and summaries are so important because they interpret the passages theologically for the readers.
