vol. 39, Issue #4

Online Journal Article: THE PENTATEUCHAL PRINCIPLE WITHIN THE CANONICAL PROCESS - DUANE L. CHRISTENSEN* JETS 39/4 (December 1996) 537–548

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THE PENTATEUCHAL PRINCIPLE
WITHIN THE CANONICAL PROCESS -
DUANE L. CHRISTENSEN*
JETS 39/4 (December 1996) 537–548

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In an article published in 1981 Isaac Kikawada argued for a ˜five-part, or
what we designate here as pentateuchal, structural design for the book of
Genesis on three successive levels: for Genesis 1–11, for Genesis as a whole,
and for Genesis within the Pentateuch. In each instance the three central
elements in his structural outline share a common theme, and the first and
fifth elements form an inclusio. Kikawada cited a somewhat parallel situation
in the book of Zephaniah, where Ivan Ball had earlier “shown that the
Book of Zephaniah as a whole imitates the outline of a part of the book or
that the organization of the book as a whole is found in miniature as a part
of Zephaniah.” This paper is an attempt to carry Kikawada’s insight furthe
r and to provide an explanation for what he intuited. --from page 537