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• Title: The Text of Genesis 17:14.
• Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 206 KB

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Genesis 17 plays a pivotal role in providing an accurate understanding of the rite of circumcision in the Hebrew Bible, early Judaism, and early Christianity. This is for at least two reasons: this text is the first canonical occurrence of the command to circumcise, and it is the only text in the Hebrew Bible that provides an explicit rationale for Israel's performance of circumcision on its male infants. (1) Consequently, it behooves the scholar attempting to assess the significance of circumcision to pay careful attention to the text-critical problems of this passage. One misstep here and the whole enterprise is bound to go astray. Although there are a number of variant readings in the ancient textual witnesses to the chapter, this article will focus on what is arguably the most important textual matter--v. 14. (2) Given the disconcerting fact that scholars have almost universally overlooked the text-critical issue of Gen 17:14, it is hoped that the careful attention to the external and internal evidence for the verse provided here will lay a sound foundation for further interpretation of Genesis 17 and the function of circumcision in ancient Israel, and subsequently in early Judaism and Christianity. I. REASSESSING THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE OF THE TEXT OF GENESIS 17:14

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