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Record W1987459135 · doi:10.1353/jbl.2014.0039

Deuteronomy 34: The Death of Moses, Not of Source Criticism

2014· article· en· W1987459135 on OpenAlex
Shawna Dolansky

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Biblical Literature · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicBiblical Studies and Interpretation
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArgument (complex analysis)TorahEpistemologyCriticismNarrativePhilosophySource documentReading (process)LiteratureHistoryArtLinguisticsTheologyComputer science

Abstract

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Serge Frolov’s article, The Death of Moses and the Fate of Source Criticism, argues that 34 exposes source criticism as it stands today as This concludes his attempt to respond to Philip Yoo’s argument that all four Pentateuchal sources can be found in the final chapter of the book of Deuteronomy. Yoo’s argument is based on the Documentary Hypothesis; using his knowledge of each of the separate sources within the Pentateuch up to that point, Yoo is able to separate the works of the J, E, P, and D sources in the culminating chapter. Frolov refers to Yoo’s method as exemplary of deductive reasoning, as indeed it is. In contrast, Frolov seeks to demonstrate that inductive reasoning would lead to the opposite conclusion: that in fact, Deuteronomy 34 is a unified “master narrative.” But finding a unified passage – especially in Deuteronomy – where others see multiple sources hardly seems cause enough to characterize the entire source critical enterprise as self-contradictory. Frolov’s emphasis on method is to be commended, as a basic understanding of methodology in source critical study is sorely lacking in our field. Unfortunately Frolov’s method of reading the text inductively and the conclusions he derives only serve to further muddy the waters concerning what the documentary hypothesis is, and what source critics do.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.922
Threshold uncertainty score0.330

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Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.240
Teacher spread0.220 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it