By Matthew A. Thomas
Using a mix of form-critical and linguistic tools, the writer seeks to appreciate the position of the toledot formulation, usually translated "These are the generations of Name," in shaping the publication of Genesis and the Pentateuch as a complete. An exam of the formulation uncovers that it capabilities essentially as a heading to significant sections of textual content and attracts the readers' realization to target an ever narrower diversity of characters.
By ranging from the point of view of the outside constitution of the textual content and addressing questions that research increases, the research is ready to discover and get to the bottom of a couple of tensions in the textual content, in addition to supply insights right into a variety of different questions surrounding the toledot headings and the association of the constitution of the Pentateuch.
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Groom, Linguistic Analysis, 146. 49. Rolf P. Knierim, Text and Concept in Leviticus 1:1–9: A Case in Exegetical Method (Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1992), 1. Knierim uses this idea, for example, to argue that Lev 1:1–7 is a prescription for the procedure of 1. ”50 Thus, presupposition and assertion correspond to the theme and rheme of information structure, respectively.
17. Eissfeldt, “Biblos geneseōs,” 33–34. 18. For example, Claus Westermann, Genesis 1–11: A Commentary (trans. John J. Scullion; Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1984), 355. e. , 10:1; 25:12; 36:1, 9), one is at a bit of a loss to know to what Westermann is referring. 19. Hermann Gunkel, Genesis. (Göttinger Handkommentar zum Alten Testament 1; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1922), 134. 20. David M. : Westminster John Knox, 1996), 72 n. 47. 21. See Gordon J. 22 P as a Redactional Layer Cross’s renewing of von Rad’s idea of the toledot book was only one part of his work on the formula.
Here, the semantic context is clearly that of descent and heredity. Thus, the semantic use of the term appears to denote exactly that: the introduction of an account of the named progenitor’s offspring. However, the term is also used to introduce narrative sections concerned, more or less closely, with the named one’s descendants. While the semantic field here is somewhat wider, the overall effect is to guide the reader toward the intended subject — the offspring of the named person. The clearest case of this usage is in Gen 37:2, where the toledot section of Jacob begins with the name of Joseph.