Joel Baden: Layers and Unities in Biblical Texts

Joel Baden (Yale)

Since the rise of critical biblical scholarship, it has been recognized that few biblical texts are monolithic units, but rather that most are the products of successive layers of editing and revising, often over the course of multiple generations. Not all layers are created equal, however: they may be revisions to some but not all of a given textual unit, they may interact either with only one or with more than one textual unit, and they may either subtly or radically reorient their source text. When considering
questions of composition, it is necessary to delineate between these various types of layers, to develop methods for identifying layers, and to understand the distinct roles that these layers play in the formation of the biblical text.

Sponsored by the
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Cosponsored by the
UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

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