The Origin Tradition of Ancient Israel: I. The Literary Formation of Genesis and Exodus 1

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For more than three decades, Thomas L. Thompson has written at the intersection of biblical theology and archaeology. Origin Tradition of Ancient Israel asks important questions about historicity in general and Israel’s history in particular—including, perhaps most importantly, at what point Israel’s history begins. After surveying the recent literature on the subject, Thompson closely examines...

historicity. To uncover the original core of a tradition was often understood as discovering the event which had given rise to the greater tradition. To deny such antiquity or such originality was understood as equivalent to denying the theological import of that tradition, for it was seen as denying that the tradition had its basis in a saving act of God. What was ignored, and what I am at pains to point out, is that it was beyond the ability of any critical scholarship to establish a link between

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