Writing, Rewriting, and Overwriting in the Books of Deuteronomy and the Former Prophets: Essays in Honor of Cynthia Edenburg

Cynthia Edenburg is one of the leading experts of the formation of the

books covering Deuteronomy and the Former Prophets, commonly called the

Deuteronomistic History . She has renewed scholarly understanding of the

process how the narrative and legal traditions that are gathered in

these books were written down for the first time before they were edited

in several ways by the Deuteronomistic redactors. She provided new

insight into these redactional processes by distinguishing several ways

of revising a text. Most of the contributions gathered in this volume

pursue the question of the composition and revision of the books of

Deuteronomy and the Former Prophets. Additional contributions deal with

the history of the text of other books, from Genesis to Chronicles. They

are all presented to Cynthia Edenburg as an appreciation of her

influence on current scholarship.