Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Poirier, John C.

Titel

Generational Reckoning in Hesiod and in the Pentateuch

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Near Eastern studies, 2003-07, Vol.62 (3), p.193-199

Ort / Verlag

Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Two passages in the Pentateuch describe the length of the Israelites' captivity in Egypt: Genesis 15:13-16 and Exodus 12:40. The discrepancy in the number of years given for the Egyptian captivity perhaps reveals a real difference in the prebiblical shape of these two traditions, but it poses no problem for the harmonist. However, a number of scholars consider the association of such a lengthy period with so few generations to be a problem and speak of a discrepancy in the authors' treatment of sources or of the intrusion of a gloss harmonizing Genesis 15 with Exodus 12.