The Asaph psalms (50, 73-83) are a unity. They often call God 'Elohim' and 'El', and the people 'Joseph', as Amos does; they appeal to Israelite history, the exodus and the covenant; they are written in the face of military catastrophe. In this suggestive and brilliant work, Gou…
The Asaph psalms (50, 73-83) are a unity. Goulder argues that they were composed in Bethel in the 720s for use as the psalmody for the autumn festival. This gives us vital new evidence for the history of the Pentateuch: there was at Bethel a historical tradition from at least th…
This work examines the notion of the land and its conquest which are important subjects today for the formation of the Pentateuch. The sabbatical calendar, known from the books of Enoch and Jubilees and several Dead Sea Scrolls, is applied to the Pentateuch, revealing it as the …
Thanks to very peculiar style and theology, Pg was identified as far back as 1869 by Theodor Nöldeke and remains one of the last pillars of Pentateuch research after the fall of the Wellhausen model. Its existence is rarely doubted, but its extent is debated. Does it end already…