Secondary Layers and the Pentateuch

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Oxford University Press

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• event Formation and redaction of surviving Exodus traditions
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · contextualizes · secondary-layer methodology

  Supports multi-stage redaction.

• causal hypothesis Plural-memory model for Exodus traditions
  Evidence confidence: ◈ low
  informs · contextualizes · secondary layers

  Supports composite formation.

• ranked model Exodus historical-memory models
  Evidence confidence: ◈ low
  informs · dates · composition layers

  Supports later formation.

• date assertion Exodus tradition — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · dates · secondary-layer methodology

  Supports multi-stage model.

• property assignment Exodus tradition — has property — Literary tradition, not contemporary event report
  Evidence confidence: ◈ near certain
  informs · defines · secondary-layer methodology

  Supports assignment.

• claim A biblical narrative is direct evidence for a literary tradition and its reception, not automatically a contemporary report of its narrated event.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ near certain
  informs · defines · secondary layers

  Supports multi-stage text history.