Tora i Prorocy Wcześniejsi, czyli „wielkie dzieło historyczne” Starego Testamentu

Abstract

Relatively great part of exegetical studies on the Old Testament deals with literary analysis, indicating the real historical value and the reading of the theological message of the texts, which in the Hebrew Bible belong to the blocks called Torah and Former Prophets. The present study shows an outline of the concepts and trials of solutions first of all literary problems arising at the reading of these texts. From the hypotheses in relation to the question of coming into being of the Pentateuch, at the lead of the hypothesis of sources, through the concepts of Hexateuch and of the Deuteronomistic History, to the appearing as well-founded theory of the Great Postexilic Historical Work (Gen – 2 Ki). Its historiographic value and theological message, must be read, however, taking into consideration that the work preserved to our times is the fruit of the long composition process, which most probably finished in the 5th century BC.