ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Book Of Deuteronomy, Source Criticism, Torah
14 Aug 2020
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Pentateuch (torah = law: first five books (gen, ex, lev, deut, num, myths, patriarchal narratives, egyptian sojourn and exodus. Prophets (neviim = prophets: major (longer, minor (shorter) Historical books (ketubim = writings: joshua to kings [deuteronomistic history, wisdom literature and psalms. Tanak = acronym for the hebrew bible. Hebrew bible in christian tradition is known as the old testament. Source criticism seeks evidence of individual sources in the bible as we have it: Annals and administrative records (e. g. , kings of judah, kings of israel) Mesopotamia traditions (e. g. , creation, flood stories, genealogies) Biblical texts are discrete products of the late iron age over a number of centuries (ca. Careers of early prophets (late 8th cent): isaiah, amos, hosea. Myths and later prophets (6th-5th cents): genesis, exodus, numbers, obadiah, For our purposes we will assume a largely 6th century date (i. e. , 600-500 b. c. ) for the current shaping of most of the composition of the early historical works under discussion.
