“After These Things” and its Composition in Genesis
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As a formulaic phrase that appears in Genesis to connect sequential narratives, critics have attributed “after these things” to a single literary stratum or to redactional insertions into developing narrative blocks. Drawing upon the other attestations of “after these things” from the biblical corpus, this article explains that “after these things” in Genesis may be viewed as a stock phrase, one that a composer or a redactor may employ in the absence of quantifiable chronological data to express the passage of an indefinite amount of time between two consecutive events.
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“After These Things” and its Composition in Genesis
In: Vetus TestamentumSearch for other papers by Philip Y. Yoo in
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Abstract
As a formulaic phrase that appears in Genesis to connect sequential narratives, critics have attributed “after these things” to a single literary stratum or to redactional insertions into developing narrative blocks. Drawing upon the other attestations of “after these things” from the biblical corpus, this article explains that “after these things” in Genesis may be viewed as a stock phrase, one that a composer or a redactor may employ in the absence of quantifiable chronological data to express the passage of an indefinite amount of time between two consecutive events.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Full Text Views | 305 | 1 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 220 | 5 | 0 |