Proceedings of a symposium, held on January 10-12, 2010 in Zurich, Switzerland.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Current issues in methodology. Does recent scholarship's critique of the documentary hypothesis constitute grounds for its rejection? / Baruch J. Schwartz -- Has European scholarship abandoned the documentary hypothesis? : some reminders on its history and remarks on its current status / Konrad Schmid -- The Pentateuch in current research : consensus and debate / Reinhard G. Kratz -- Scribal processes of corrdination/harmonization and the formation of the first hexateuch(s) / David M. Carr -- Dating pentateuchal texts and the perils of pseudo-historicism / Benjamin D. Sommer -- The limits of interpretation / Jean-Louis Ska -- Genesis. Genesis 1:1-2:3 and the development of the Pentateuch / Thomas Kr ger -- Text- and reception-historical reflections on transmissional and hermeneutical techniques in Genesis 2-3 / Michaela Bauks -- Source criticism in the primeval history of Genesis : an outdated paradigm for the study of the Pentateuch? / Jan Christian Gertz -- Is the "J" primeval narrative an independent composition? : a critique of Cr semann's "Die Eigenstñdigkeit der Urgeschichte" / Ronald Hendel -- Rachel, Leah, and the composition of Genesis / Sarah Shectman -- Righteousness in the Joseph story : Joseph resists seduction (Genesis 39) / Christoph Levin -- Exodus-Deuteronomy. The late exilic book of Exodus (Exodus 1-34*) : a contribution to the pentateuchal discussion / Rainer Albertz -- The priestly wilderness itineraries and the composition of the Pentateuch / Thomas B. Dozeman -- The decalogue and the composition history of the Pentateuch / Erhard Blum -- The literary development of Deuteronomy 12 : between religious ideal and social reality / Simeon Chavel -- The deuteronomic evidence for the documentary theory / Joel S. Baden -- P, H, and D. An eternal covenant with circumcision as its sign : how useful a criterion for dating and source analysis? / Saul M. Olyan -- Who edited the Pentateuch? / Israel Knohl -- Distinguishing innerbiblical exegesis from pentateuchal redaction : Leviticus 26 as a test case / Jeffrey Stackert -- P, source or redaction : the evidence of Numbers 25 / Itamar Kislev -- The laws about clean and unclean animals in Leviticus and Deuteronomy and their place in the formation of the Pentateuch / Christophe Nihan -- Pentateuch in the Hebrew Bible and its history of reception. "A prophet like Moses" (Deuteronomy 18:15), "no prophet like Moses" (Deuteronomy 34:10) : some observations on the relation between the Pentateuch and the latter prophets / Reinhard Achenbach -- Reading Genesis after Samuel / Graeme Auld -- Extra-pentateuchal biblical evidence for the existence of a Pentateuch? : the case of the "historical summaries," especially in the Psalms / Thomas Rm̲er -- Using Ezra's time as a methodological pivot for understanding the rhetoric and functions of the Pentateuch / James W. Watts -- Parallel torahs and inner-scriptural interpretation : the Jewish and Samaritan Pentateuchs in historical perspective / Gary N. Knoppers.