Pentateuch

Pentateuch - General Introductions & Critical Theories

• Pentateuch Links. These links are part of Ralph Klein's The Old Testament and the Ancient Near East.
• The Law and the Former Prophets. This site is a course that is taught by James McLaren at the Australian Catholic University. It contains 12 excellent modules.
• Torah/Pentateuch at iTanakh. This site is a resource for the academic study of the Hebrew Scriptures maintained by R. Christopher Heard.
• Tanach Study Center. Shiurim on Chumash and Navi by Menachem Leibtag. The Tanach Study Center is designed to provide the student with a structured learning program for self-study of Tanach.
• Pentateuch, in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).
• Who wrote the 5 books of Moses? by B. A. Robinson (January 1-2002), Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance.
• Prolegomena to the History of Israel. by Julius Wellhausen at the Project Gutenberg site.
• Prologue to the Torah. by Barry Bandstra from Bandstra's Reading the Old Testament.
• Answering the Documentary Hypothesis. by Matthew J. Slick. This site is a conservative critque of the Documentary Hypothesis. Also n.b. The Documentary Hypothesis of the Pentateuch also known as the JEDP Theory on this same site. These pages are part of the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry site.
• The Analysis of the Pentateuch. by Gerald Larue, from his Old Testament Life and Literature, 1968. This page describes the Pentateuch as the portion of the Bible which best demonstrates the results of the historical-literary approach. Nota Bene, the following pages from the same volume: J and the Law; E; and Literature of the Middle Period.
• The Primary History (Genesis-2 Kings), An Exilic Composition of 562-561 BCE? by Wlater Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld. Mattfeld exegetes from what he calls a "Rational-Humanist Viewpoint," throughout his Bible Origins site.
• Green, William Henry. The Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895. (pdf)
• Enns, Peter. "William Henry Green and the Authorship of the Pentateuch." Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 45, no. 3 (2002): 385-403. (pdf)
• Martin, W. J. Stylistic Criteria and the Analysis of the Pentateuch. London: Tyndale Press, 1955. (pdf)
• Fairbairn, Patrick. The Revelation of the Law in Scriptures. London: T. & T. Clark, 1869. (pdf)
• Kitchen, Kenneth A. Ancient Orient and Old Testament. London: Tynadel Press, 1966. A web site with multiple pdfs.
• Clines, David J. A. "God in the Pentateuch: Reading against the Grain." In Interested Parites: The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Hebrew Bible. JSOT Sup. Series, 205; Gender, Culture, Theory, 1. 187-211. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.
• Yahuda, A. S. The Langauge of the Torah in its Relation to Egyptian. London, 1933.
• Rendtorff, Rolf. "What Happened to the "Yahwist?": Reflections after Thrity Years," SBL Forum, (2006).
• Clines, David J. A. "Response to Rolf Rendtorff's "What Happened to the Yahwist? Reflections after Thirty Years," SBL-Forum, (2006).
• Seters, John van, "Some remarks of the paper by Rolf Rendtorff, "What happened to the 'Yahwist'?" SBL-Forum, (2006).
• Rosengren, Allan, "Why is There a Documentary Hypothesis, and What Does It Do to You If You Use It?: A Response to David Clines," SBL-Forum, (2006).
• Koorevaar, Hendrik, "The Torah as One, Three or Five Books: An Introduction to the Macro-Structural Problem of the Pentateuch," See-J Hiphil 3 (2006).
• Waltke, Bruce. "Harold Bloom and "J": A Review Article," JETS 34, No. 4 (1991): 509-520.
• Christensen, Duane L. "The Pentateuchal Principle Within the Canonical Process," JETS 39, No. 4 (1996): 537-548.
• Hildebrand, David R. "A Summary of Recent Findings in Support of an Early Date for the So-Called Priestly Material of the Pentateuch." JETS 29, No. 2 (1986): 129-138.
• Christensen, Duane L. and Marcel Narucki. "The Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch." JETS 32, No. 4 (1989): 465-472.
• George, J. F. Leopold. Die älteren jüdischen Feste mit einer Kritik der Gesetzgebung des Pentateuch.
• Addis, William Edward. The Documents of the Hexateuch: Translated and Arranged in Chronological Order with Introduction and Notes.
• Briggs, Charles Augustus. The Higher Criticism of the Hexateuch.
• Carpenter, Joseph Estlin, and George Harford. The Composition of the Hexateuch: An Introduction with Select Lists of Words and Phrases.
• Colenso, John William. The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined. Volume 1; Volume 2; Volume 3; Volume 4; Volume 5.
• Colenso, John William. Lectures on the Pentateuch and the Moabite Stone.
• Cumming, John. Moses Right, and Bishop Colenso Wrong: Being Popular Lectures on the Pentateuch.
• Curtiss, Samuel Ives. The Levitical Priests: A Contribution to the Criticism of the Pentateuch.
• Hävernick, Heinrich Andreas C. Spezielle Einleitung in den Pentateuch; 2nd ed. by Carl Friedrich Keil.
• Kuenen, Abraham. Historico-critical Inquiry into the Origin and Composition of the Hexateuch.
• Vater, Johann Severin. Commentar über den Pentateuch. Mit Einleitungen von A. Geddes's Anmerkungen.
• Harper, William Rainey. The Priestly Element in the Old Testament: An Aid to Historical Study for Use in Advanced Bible Classes.
• Michaelis, Johann David. Commentaries on the Laws of Moses. Volume 1; Volume 2; Volume 3; Volume 4.

Jewish Torah Studies

• The Torahnet Page. by Eric Sholom Simon has collected links for Torah or Talmud study opportunities via the internet or email.
• The Legends of the Jews. by Louis Ginzberg. This site is a slightly edited version of Volumes I-IV.
• The Judaica Press Complete Tanach with Rashi. This link contains an English translation of the entire Tanach with Rashi's commentary. The translation is the authoritative Judaica Press version, edited by the esteemed translator and scholar, Rabbi A.J. Rosenberg. The site is a Chabad Online Network site, A division of the Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center.
• The Metsudah Chumash / Rashi (English only), trans. Avorohom Davis.

Pentateuch - General - Journal Articles

• The Legal Charaterization of Moses in the Rhetoric of the Pentateuch, by James W. Watts in Journal of Biblical Literature 117 (1998), 415-426.
• Reader identification and Alienation in the Legal Rhetoric of the Pentateuch, by James W. Watts in Biblical Interpretation 7 (1999), 101-112.
• Rhetorical Strategy in the Composition of the Pentateuch, by James W. Watts in Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 68 (1995), 3-22.
• Public Readings and Pentateuchal Law, by James W. Watts in Vetus Testamentum 45 (1995), 540-547.
• Christensen, Duane L. "The Pentateuchal Principle Within the Canonical Process." Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 39, no. 4 (1996): 537-548. (pdf)
• Wenham, Gordan. "Pentateuchal Studies Today." Themelios 22, no. 1 (Oct 1996): 3-13.
• Dorsey, David A. "The Law of Moses and the Christian: A Compromise," JETS 34, no. 3 (1991): 321-334.
• Youngblood, Ronald. "Moses and the King of Siam." JETS 16, no. 4 (1973): 215-222.
• Chirichigno, Greg. "A Theological Investigation of Motivation in Old Testament Law." JETS 24, No. 4 (1981): 303-314.

Bibliography

• Matthews, Victor H. Pentateuch - Gender-Related Bibliography.
• A Working Bibliography on the Critical Study of the Pentateuch - Hymes