TY - BOOK ID - 77927966 TI - The Transjordanian Palimpsest PY - 2009 SN - 1282187597 9786612187599 3110212765 9783110212761 9781282187597 311020410X 9783110204100 9783110204100 311020410X 661218759X PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Deuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism) KW - Deuteronomic history (Biblical criticism) KW - Deuteronomists (Biblical criticism) KW - DH (Biblical criticism) KW - D document (Biblical criticism) KW - Bible. KW - Antico Testamento KW - Hebrew Bible KW - Hebrew Scriptures KW - Kitve-ḳodesh KW - Miḳra KW - Old Testament KW - Palaia Diathēkē KW - Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa KW - Sean-Tiomna KW - Stary Testament KW - Tanakh KW - Tawrāt KW - Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim KW - Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim KW - Velho Testamento KW - Historical Books (Books of the Old Testament) KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Historiography. KW - Jordan River. KW - Jordan KW - ash-Sharīʻah KW - Aulon KW - ha-Yarden KW - Nahr al-Urdunn KW - History. KW - Deuteronomistic History. KW - Geographical Perception. KW - Old Testament. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77927966 AB - This study analyzes several passages in the Former Prophets (2 Sam 19:12-44; 2 Kgs 2:1-18; Judg 8:4-28) from a literary perspective, and argues that the text presents Transjordan as liminal in Israel's history, a place from which Israel's leaders return with inaugurated or renewed authority. It then traces the redactional development of Samuel-Kings that led to this literary symbolism, and proposes a hypothesis of continual updating and combination of texts, beginning early in Israel's monarchy and continuing until the final formation of the Deuteronomistic History. Several source documents may be isolated, including three narratives of Saul's rise, two distinct histories of David's rise, and a court history that was subsequently revised with pro-Solomonic additions. These texts had been combined already in a Prophetic Record during the 9th c. B.C.E. (with A. F. Campbell), which was received as an integrated unit by the Deuteronomistic Historian. The symbolic geography of the Jordan River and Transjordan, which even extends into the New Testament, was therefore not the product of a deliberate theological formulation, but rather the accidental by-product of the contingency of textual redaction that had as its main goal the historical presentation of Israel's life in the land. ER -