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Title: | ויצלהו מידם: Proleptic Summaries, Conative Imperfects, and Harmonization in the Joseph Story and Other Biblical Narratives |
Authors: | Steiner, Richard C. Machinist, Peter |
Keywords: | proleptic summaries conative imperfects harmonization Joseph story biblical narratives |
Issue Date: | Dec-2021 |
Publisher: | Society of Biblical Literature |
Citation: | Steiner, Richard C. . ויצלהו מידם : Proleptic Summaries, Conative Imperfects, and Harmonization in the Joseph Story and Other Biblical Narratives, in Ve-’Ed Ya‘aleh (Gen 2:6) Essays in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Edward L. Greenstein, vol. 1, eds. Peter Machinist, Robert A. Harris, Joshua A. Berman, Nili Samet, and Noga Ayali-Darshan (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021), 637-656. |
Series/Report no.: | Writings from the Ancient World Supplement Ser.;v.6 |
Abstract: | Despite Rashbam’s solution, a good number of prominent source critics, from the eighteenth century to the present day, have followed Jerome in using the philologically flimsy conative interpretation of ו יַּ צַּלִהֵ וּ to harmonize Gen 37:21a with 37:28b onward. Their treatment of this contradiction, in the chapter that has long served as the poster child for source division, is a tacit but powerful admission that harmonization is a legitimate—and even indispensable—tool of critical scholarship. |
Description: | Scholarly book chapter |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/7825 |
ISBN: | 9780884145370, 0884145379 |
Appears in Collections: | Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications |
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