Aaron Schart - Böcker

For some years the view has become established that the Book of the Twelve is a systematically structured literary unity. An exegesis which takes the final canonical text seriously undertakes to understand the structure and theological intention of this unity. The papers collected here attempt to reveal significant structures which overarch the individual components. Particular emphasis is placed on the reconstruction of thematic threads which are created when individual prophets take up topics from their predecessors (e.g. Jehovah's Day, conversion, role of the peoples) and intensify them. The papers were written between 1999 and 2002 under the aegis of the Society of Biblical Literature's Working Group on The Formation of the Book of the Twelve.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world. BZAW welcomes submissions that make an original and significant contribution to the field; demonstrate sophisticated　engagement with the relevant secondary literature; and are written in readable, logical, and engaging prose.

Given James D. Nogalski’s contributions to research on the diachronic formation of the Book of the Twelve and its relationship to other Hebrew prophetic texts, this Festschrift in his honor looks ahead toward the next stages in Book of the Twelve scholarship: the relationship between the Twelve and other prophetic collections, texts, and conceptions of prophecy in the Hebrew Bible. Many scholars studying the formation of the Book of the Twelve note that composition models have to account not only for the literary relationship between the individual prophetic texts within the collection but also for the literary relationship between the Twelve and the other Hebrew texts that also developed in the exilic and postexilic periods. This area of inquiry benefits immensely from emerging insights into Ancient Mesopotamian and Mediterranean scribal practices, the scribal role of Levites in the Second Temple Period, and ancient conceptions of prophecy. In this Festschrift, Nogalski’s colleagues and students advance scholarly inquiry into the Twelve as a collection that developed in relation to and alongside other Hebrew texts and collections in the Second Temple Period. The authors in this volume explore the Twelve (in whole or in part) as it engages themes, motifs, and traditions found in other parts of the developing Hebrew scriptures.

Die Neuere Urkundenhypothese, die im 20. Jahrhundert als Standardtheorie diente, um die Entstehung des Pentateuchs zu erklären, ist von vielen Seiten in Frage gestellt worden. Ein wichtiger Textbereich, auf dessen Basis neue Vorschläge in die Diskussion eingebracht wurden, ist das Buch Numeri. Die Beiträge des Bandes behandeln die Redaktionsgeschichte des Buches von den frühesten bis zu den spätesten Schichten. Es werden Fragen behandelt wie das quellenkritische Verhältnis zu den Texten im Deuteronomium, der Stellenwert der späten gesetzlichen Fortschreibungen und deren Verhältnis zu Gesetzen in Levitikus und Deuteronomium und die Formation des Buches als normative "Tora" im Kontext des Pentateuch.Die Beiträge dieses Bandes gehen teilweise auf Vorträge auf einem Symposium mit dem Thema "Torah in the Book of Numbers" zurück, welches vom 12.-13. April 2011 an der Ruhr-Universität in Bochum stattfand, teilweise wurden sie eigens für diesen Band verfasst.