Category: Course on the Historical books
The Book of Joshua (Third part)

The most favorable political and social context at the beginning of deuteronomic literary activity is the age of Josiah. Like Deuteronomy, so the first edition of Joshua is probably functional to the political intentions of Josiah. The stories of conquests were therefore instrumental to the affirmation of Juda’s political and…
The First Edition of the Book of Deuteronomy (Second part)
The First Edition of the Book of Deuteronomy (First part)
The origins of the Dtr story
Deuteronomy 12 as an Example of the Threefold Deuteronomistic Editing
The scroll of the Law found by Josiah in the Temple: myth or reality?
Who were the Deuteronomists?
The Composition of the Historical Books. From Joshua to 2 Kings (Third part)

The multiplication of dtr editors has made many scholars skeptical about the very existence of deuteronomic history. The problem is essentially the concept of “historiography” and the coherence of the dtr work. The “dtr” history can not be termed in any way, since it still belongs to the mythical genus…
The Composition of the Historical Books. From Joshua to 2 Kings (Second part)

Until the end of the 1960s, Martin Noth’s theory – that of a single author for Dtr – remained basically unchanged, finding mainly confirmations and some minor correction. Among the supporters we find Ivan Engnell (1906-1964). Otto Eissfeldt (1887-1973) argued that the complexity of the texts contained in the so-called Former Prophets…