The Pentateuch
- The Pentateuch
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The extant Book of Exodus features a series of declarations by Yhwh concerning his name. In this revision of his Institut catholique de Paris dissertation directed by O. Artus and defended by him in October 2017, L. focuses on the three passages of his title in which the divine name thematic comes to the fore, doing so against the background of current discussions concerning the formation history of the Pentateuch/Hexateuch. His analysis of these three passages—to each of which he devotes a lengthy chapter—leads L. to distinguish four literary strata within the materials in question, each with its own conception [End Page 257] of the divine name and its nuances. The four strata, which range in date from the end of the 6th to the end of the 4th century b.c., are: a Deuteronomistic redaction responsible for the base-text of Exod 3:1–4:18 and 33–34; a P source text; a pentateuchal redaction that combined the two preceding strata, and the very late, small-scale insertions in Exod 3:14 and 33:13–18, whose purpose is to highlight the perduring mystery and inaccessibility of Yhwh, even as he manifests himself in history.—C.T.B.
The 15 essays making up this volume originated as papers delivered at SBL panel sessions in the years 2014–2016. Several of them have been previously published in some form and are here reprinted in a revised version. The volume’s introduction provides abstracts of the essays, each of which comes with its own bibliography. The volume’s end-matter includes lists of contributors and those contributors’ publications about Leviticus, plus indexes of sources, subjects, and select Greek and Hebrew terms. For abstracts of the essays, see ##143, 334, 337, 412, 413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 418, 421, 422, 423, 424, 425.—C.T.B.
