Description: Walter Buhrer investigates the methodological presuppositions for a relative-dating of Old Testament texts. With Gen 1-3 as a test case he works with one of the most important texts in classical pentateuchal scholarship. Recent European scholarship tends more and more to post-date the non-priestly Eden narrative through comparison wi
Brief description: Dr. theol. Walter Buhrer ist Lehrbeauftragter an der theologischen Fakultat der Universitat Heidelberg.
Review Quotes: "The overall argument is a strong and thorough response to the present trends in the theories of the development and relative chronology of Gen. 1-3." --Jordan M. Scheetz, Review of Biblical Literature, 9.24.2015