RT Review
T1 Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus: Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch. By Russell E. Gmirkin
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 59
IS 1
SP 212
OP 214
A1 Van Seters, John
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2008
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1783722371
AB As the title of this book suggests, the author argues for the thesis that the Pentateuch was produced in Egypt under the influence of the two Hellenistic historians, Berossus (in Genesis) and Manetho (in Exodus). It was composed in Hebrew with a Greek translation by the same group of scholars at virtually the same time, in 273–2 bce. Such a daring claim is based upon the principle that the oldest confirmed date for the existence of the Pentateuch is in the account of the Septuagint translation in the Letter of Aristeas, c.273–2 bce, and that parts of the Pentateuch depended upon the works of Berossus and Manetho and must therefore be dated later than both.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/flm136