The Kerygma of the Yahwist

Wolff, Hans Walter

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“…JnJ Wolff (1966) pl49 suggests that from the description of Abimelek as 'king of the Philistines' in vl, Isaac is dealing with 'Israel's old archenemy'.…”

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“…71 This seems to be the method of Wolff (1966) p145, where he suggests that 12:3b discloses in retrospect the Leiifrage of J's primeval history to be explaining why the nations need blessing; Wolff thus asks questions of chs 1-11 in the light of 12:1-3. flood (9: 1-7). 72 That Abraham, and others through their relationship to him, should receive blessing is not particularly surprising in the light of what has preceded.…”

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“…142 In Judg 11:37 ('grant me two months ,?m:l-?lJ ii;j:lK1 C,1il:1-?l' ,n,,,, ;,:hK,') the perfect's force can hardly be different from that of the cohortatives, so its use is presumably for the sake of variety. However it is equally possible that we should see no particular 144 Contra Wolff (1966) pl38, suggesting that v3b 'is the real result and it is, therefore, confirmed definitively by the perfect'; cf. Brockelmann (1956) 145 See below ch6.3.9.…”

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“…Wolff (1966 categorisation might affect analysis of the niphal of v'l,~-Likewise describing usage of the niphal will be more important than explaining why the one stem is used in all these ways.…”

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Abraham, Blessing and the Nations: A Philological and Exegetical Study of Genesis 12:3 in Its Narrative Context

Grüneberg¹

2004

Journal of Biblical Literature

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source• a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses• the full-text is not changed in any wayThe full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. The meaning of Genesis 12:3 is much controverted. This study, considering the final form of Genesis, argues that it is in the first place a promise of security and greatness to Abraham and Israel, but that in its context, following Genesis 1-11, it also indicates a divine plan to extend blessing to all the earth's peoples. In receiving God's blessing, Abraham/ Israel act as models and/ or pioneers of blessing for others. God's actions remain free, but also invite appropriate human response.Examination of the near-parallels to Genesis 12:3a in Genesis 27:29b and Numbers 24:9bshows that they are concerned more with the security of the person blessed than with the possibility of others gaining blessing.Detailed discussion of the Hebrew niphal concludes that it normally has either passive or 'middle' force (and is very rarely reflexive). No 'middle' sense found elsewhere for the niphal plausibly fits '-'li:::l, and hence the niphal in Genesis 12:3 (and 18:18 and 28:14) is passive: analysis of these passages in their contexts supports this grammatical conclusion.The hithpael in general this study argues to be usually 'middle' in force, though sometimes passive and occasionally reflexive. The hithpael of '-'li:l when used outside Genesis is probably a 'speech action middle', meaning 'utter blessing', and this sense fits Genesis 22: 18 and 26:4: this is argued to be compatible with understanding the niphal as a passive.The semantics of '-'li:::l Rationale for this study 10 Method 12Chapter 2 Parallels to Genesis 12:3a 222. (v2b) 178 6.3.6 'I shall make your name great' (v2c) 179 6.3.7 'You shall be a blessing' (v2d) 183 6.3.8 'I will bless those who bless you, while the one 184 who abuses you I will curse ' (v3a) 6.3.9 'All the families of the earth shall be blessed 190 through you ' (v3b) Chapter 7 The Hithpael of ..Jl1~ it is only fitting to acknowledge the God who is at its source and who has sustained me in its pursuit. DeclarationNo part of this thesis has previously been submitted for a degree in any university. Material derived from the work of others has been acknowledged.The copyright of this thesis rests with the author. No quotation from it should be published without his prior written consent and information derived from it should be acknowledged. Introduction Rationale for this studyThe importance of Gen 12: 1-3 -and especially v3 -was classically asserted by Gerhard von Rad. 1 For him, 12:1-3 is a free composition of the Yahwist, and therefore ...

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“…JnJ Wolff (1966) pl49 suggests that from the description of Abimelek as 'king of the Philistines' in vl, Isaac is dealing with 'Israel's old archenemy'.…”

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Abraham, Blessing and the Nations: A Philological and Exegetical Study of Genesis 12:3 in Its Narrative Context

Grüneberg¹

2004

Journal of Biblical Literature

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“…In the programatic passage of 12:1-3, however, there is no mention of a son, the land is only adumbrated, and blessing has become the "linchpin word." 15 In composing this passage, the author clearly had in mind not just the story of Abram and Sarai that follows but also the primeval stories that precede, with (for the Yahwist) the contrasting motif of the curse (3:14-19; 4:11; 8:21; 9:25-26). Thus, when God promises that blessing will come to "all the families of the earth" through Abram, we have before us the central theological focus that unites the book.…”

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“All the Families of the Earth”

Mann

1991

Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

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The Formation Of The Biblical Narrative Corpus

Greenstein

1990

AJS Review

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Following the lead of Spinoza, most of us have come to regard the sequence of Hebrew narrative from Genesis through Kings as a unified literary composition. It tells the story of Israel and its God from the creation of sky and land through the exile of Israel from its particular land. Although the anonymous narrator focuses on the fate of his people, he virtually always tries to identify with YHWH's point of view. For this reason, and possibly others, the narrator submerges his own identify and background. Unlike his near-contemporary Herodotus, who begins his Histories by introducing himself and his explicit agenda, the Hebrew author speaks from a perspective as wide as the cosmos. He would seem to assume the authority of God and give voice to a divinely certified account of his people's historical experience to (one assumes) his own community.

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The Kerygma of the Yahwist

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Abraham, Blessing and the Nations: A Philological and Exegetical Study of Genesis 12:3 in Its Narrative Context

Abraham, Blessing and the Nations: A Philological and Exegetical Study of Genesis 12:3 in Its Narrative Context

“All the Families of the Earth”

The Formation Of The Biblical Narrative Corpus

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