TY - BOOK ID - 78141757 TI - Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus PY - 2006 SN - 1282005065 9786612005060 0567134393 9780567134394 9780567025920 0567025926 PB - New York T & T Clark DB - UniCat KW - Greek literature, Hellenistic KW - Documentary hypothesis (Pentateuchal criticism) KW - Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis (Pentateuchal criticism) KW - History and criticism. KW - Berosus, KW - Manetho. KW - Bible. KW - Chumash KW - Five Books of Moses KW - Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah KW - Ḥumash KW - Kitāb-i Muqqadas KW - Mose Ogyŏng (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Pentateuch KW - Pi︠a︡toknizhīe Moiseevo KW - Sefer Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah KW - Tawrāh KW - Torà (Pentateuch) KW - Torah (Pentateuch) KW - Tʻoris xutʻcigneuli KW - Ureta KW - תורה KW - Haftarot KW - Authorship. KW - 221.08*9 KW - 221.08*9 Theologie van het Oude Testament: relatie met het hellenisme KW - Theologie van het Oude Testament: relatie met het hellenisme KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78141757 AB - Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus proposes a provocative new theory regarding the date and circumstances of the composition of the Pentateuch. Gmirkin argues that the Hebrew Pentateuch was composed in its entirety about 273-272 BCE by Jewish scholars at Alexandria that later traditions credited with the Septuagint translation of the Pentateuch into Greek. The primary evidence is literary dependence of Gen. 1-11 on Berossus' Babyloniaca (278 BCE) and of the Exodus story on Manetho's Aegyptiaca (c. 285-280 BCE), and the geo-political data contained in the Table of Nations. A number of ind ER -