The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
76. What Are Redaction and Text Criticism?
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
Kåre Berge [+]
Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo
Kåre Berge is Professor emeritus and guest researcher at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo. His studies cover the Pentateuch, especially Genesis, Exodus and Deuteronomy, focusing on cultural memory, politics of identity, didacticism, and symbolization of power-relations. In particular, “Dynamics of Power and the Re-invention of ‘Israel’ in Persian Empire Judah.” Pages 293–321 in Levantine Entanglements. Edited by T. Stordalen and Ø.S. LaBianca. Sheffield: Equinox, 2021; and “Cities in Deuteronomy: Imperial Ideology, Resilience, and the Imagination of Yahwistic Religion.” Pages 77–96 in Deuteronomy in the Making. Edited by D. Edelman, B. Rossi, K. Berge, P. Guillaume. BZAW 533; Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 2021.
Description
Despite the present popularity of synchronic readings, academic biblical scholarship continues to consider most biblical texts as the product of a complex process of expansion, revision, and reshaping. Redaction criticism holds that such a process is possible to reconstruct, though to what extent is debatable.