Re-Imagining Abraham : A Re-Assessment of the Influence of Deuteronomism in Genesis.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 The Deuteronomist in Genesis? -- A Brief Overview of the History of Proposals concerning Deuteronom(ist)ic Editing in Genesis -- Outline of the Present Study -- Reading Contextually -- Dating -- Inner-Scriptural Exegesis -- The Four Passages as Additional to Their Context -- Gen 18:17-19 -- Gen 22:15-18 -- Gen 26:3-5 -- The Four Passages as Deuteronom(ist)ic -- Criteria for Characterizing Text as Deuteronom(ist)ic -- A Two-Step Test -- The Characterization of Text as Post-Deuteronomistic/Post-Priestly -- David M. Carr -- Konrad Schmid -- A Third Step? Assessing Compositional Logic -- Structure of the Book -- Chapter 2 Land, People and Torah -- Gen 26:1-11 The Ancestress in Danger-Again -- Gen 26:12-22 'Now Yahweh Has Made Room for Us and We Shall Be Fruitful in the Land' -- Gen 26:23-25 'From There He Went Up to Beersheba' -- Gen 26:26-33 Abimelech and Isaac Exchange Oaths -- Gen 26:34-35 'And They Caused Bitterness of Spirit for Isaac and Rebekah' -- Gen 26:3-5 The Late Addition -- Gen 26:3 '… And I Will Fulfil the Oath that I Swore to Your Father Abraham' -- Gen 26:4a 'I Will Make Your Offspring as Numerous as the Stars of Heaven …' -- Gen 26:4b '… and All the Nations of the Earth Shall Gain Blessing for Themselves …' -- Gen 26:5 'Because Abraham Obeyed My Voice and Kept My Charge …' -- Reading Gen 26:3-5 in the Context of Genesis 26 -- Reading in Context-Abrahamic Merit -- Reading in Context-The Monarchic Model -- Final Observations -- Chapter 3 The Heir in Danger -- Genesis 20 Ironies, Half-Truths and Flawed Assumptions -- 'She is My Sister' -- 'You Are About to Die on Account of the Woman You Have Taken …' -- 'What Have You Done to Us?' -- 'I Did It because I Thought, There Is No Fear of Elohim At All in This Place …'.

'For Yahweh Had Closed Fast All the Wombs of the House of Abimelech …' -- Concluding Observations Concerning Genesis 20 -- Gen 21:1-7 The Birth of Isaac -- Gen 21:8-12 The Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael -- Gen 21:22-34 Abimelech and Abraham Exchange Oaths -- Gen 22:1-14 The Binding of Isaac -- Gen 22:1-14 'Take Your Son, Your Only Son …' -- Excursus-Dating Issues -- Gen 22:2 '… Your Only Son Isaac, Whom You Love' -- Gen 22:3-8 So the Two of Them Walked On Together -- Gen 22:9-13 Then Abraham Reached Out His Hand -- Elements of David's Story Unaccounted For in Genesis 22 -- Gen 22:14 So Abraham Called That Place יהוה יראה -- Gen 22:15-18 The Late Addition -- 'By Myself I Have Sworn' -- 'Because You Have Done This' -- 'I Will Indeed Bless You …' -- The Nations Blessing Promise -- 'Because You Have Obeyed My Voice' -- Gen 22:19 So Abraham Returned to His Young Men … -- Reading in Context -- Reading Genesis 20-22:19 in the Context of 2 Samuel 24/ 1 Chronicles 21 -- Reading Gen 22:15-18 in the Context of Genesis 20-22:19 (and 23) and with Gen 26:3-5, 24 -- Final Observations -- Chapter 4 Righteousness and Justice -- Gen 18:1-16 The Visitors -- Gen 18:17-19 The Additional Passage -- Gen 18:17 'Shall I Hide from Abraham …?' -- Gen 18:18 '… Seeing that Abraham Shall Become a Great and Mighty Nation …' -- Gen 18:18 The Nations Blessing Promise -- Gen 18:19 'For I Have Chosen Him …' -- Gen 18:20-22 'I Must Go Down and See' -- Biblical Midrash -- Genesis 19 Lot's Hospitality and the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah -- Gen 19:1-11 Lot's Hospitality -- Gen 19:12-29 'Get Out of This Place' -- Gen 19:30-38 The Origins of Moab and Ammon -- Gen 18:23-33 Then Abraham Came Near -- Reading Lipton Reading Genesis 18-19 Reading Ezekiel 14 -- Responding to Lipton -- Lot as Non-Israelite -- Lot and His Family as Non-Righteous -- Lot and His Family as Non-Survivors.

Reading Genesis 18-19 as Inner-Scriptural Exegesis of Ezekiel 14 -- Reading in Context -- Reading Gen 18:17-19 in the Context of Genesis 18-19 -- A Deuteronomistic Flavour? -- Reading Genesis 18-19 in the Context of 2 Samuel 10 -- Final Observations -- Chapter 5 'And He Believed Him' -- Preliminary Observations -- Identifying the Literary Profile of Genesis 15 -- Identifying the Literary Context of Genesis 15 -- Gen 15:1-6 Descendants -- Gen 15:1 After These Things … -- Gen 15:2-4 'What Will You Give Me?' -- Gen 15:5 'Look Towards Heaven and Count the Stars' -- Gen 15:6 And He Believed Yahweh -- Gen 15:7-21 Land -- Gen 15:7 'I Am Yahweh Who Brought You Out …' -- Gen 15:8-12 'How Am I to Know …?' -- Excursus: Genesis 15 and the Land Oath -- Gen 15:13-16 'Know This For Certain …' -- Gen 15:17-21 'To Your Descendants I Give This Land' -- Reading Genesis 15 in Context -- The Literary Context of Genesis 15 -- Reading Genesis 15 in the Context of Gen 18:17-19 -- 22:15-18 and 26:3-5 -- Final Observations -- Chapter 6 Re-Imagining Abraham: A Deuteronom(ist)ic Project? -- The Four Passages as a Group -- Re-Imagining Abraham -- Re-Imagining Abraham: A Democratizing Project -- Patterns of Allusion in the Four Passages -- Compositional Logic, or 'Why?' -- Re-Imagining Abraham: Abraham as Future Hope -- Re-Imagining Abraham: Abraham and the Nations -- Are the Four Passages Deuteronom(ist)ic? -- If Not D, Then …? -- Abraham as Future Hope in H -- Abraham and the Land Promise in H -- The Democratizing Project and H -- Final Observations -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources.

In Re-Imagining Abraham Megan Warner challenges traditional views concerning (semi-)Deuteronomistic editing in Genesis, arguing on the basis of close readings that the presence of D-like elements points not to sympathy with the theology of D, but rather revision of it.

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