The End of Source Theories? The Genealogies in Gen 4:17–5:32 and Their Reworking in the New Testament

• Authors: Bartosz Adamczewski

Abstracts

EN

A thorough analysis of the genealogies in Gen 4:17–5:32 has shown that they are the result of a highly creative (hypertextual) and at the same time strictly sequential reworking of an older text of Deut 2:9–23. This means that the theories postulating the genealogies in Gen 4:17–5:32 as having come from various hypothetical sources of the Pentateuch (J, P, etc.) are no longer necessary to explain their origin and function. Similarly, detailed analysis of the genealogies presented in Luke 3:23–38 and Matt 1:1–17 has demonstrated that the Matthean genealogy is the effect of a deliberate reworking of the earlier genealogy composed by Luke. That, in turn, means that the theory of the “Q source,” intended to serve as an explanation of the origin of the Matthean–Lucan materials that had not come from the Gospel of Mark, is also exegetically superfluous.

Keywords

EN

biblical genealogies; book of Genesis; Apocalypse of Weeks; Gospel of Luke; Gospel of Matthew; Pentateuchal sources; Q source

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Collectanea Theologica
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 90
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 33-64

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Bartosz Adamczewski

• Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

• https://orcid.org/0000000178470203

References

• Bartosz Adamczewski, “Koniec teorii źródeł? Genealogie Rdz 4,17 – 5,32 i ich przepracowanie w Nowym Testamencie,” Collectanea Theologica 83 (2013) no. 4, 47–74.

Identifiers

DOI

10.21697/ct.2020.90.5.03

Biblioteka Nauki

2030678