Note: Appeared previously in "Money as God? The Monetization of the Market and Its Impact on Religion, Politics, Law, and Ethics" (2014) 259-281.

Note: Appeared previously in "The History of the Jacob Cycle (Genesis 25-35)" (2021) 11-34.

Note: Appeared previously in "Reconsidering the Concept of Revolutionary Monotheism" (2011) 271-289.

Note: "Some of the texts were published originally in English; others were written in German and have now been translated into English. Unless otherwise indicated (see pp. 3 and 23), most are reprinted here with no or only slight changes or updates."--Preface, page xii , Includes bibliographical references (pages 763-884) and indexes , Preface , Original publication information , The Pentateuch in the Enneateuch , Was there ever a Primary history? , Deuteronomy within the "Deuteronomistic histories" in Genesis-2 Kings , History of scholarship , Has European scholarship abandoned the Documentary hypothesis?: some reminders on its history and remarks on its current status , The emergence and disappearance of the separation between the Pentateuch and the Deuteronomistic history in biblical studies , Post-Priestly additions in the Pentateuch: a survey of scholarship , The prophets after the law or the law after the prophets?: terminological, biblical and historical perspectives , The formation of the Torah , Textual, historical, sociological, and ideological cornerstones of the formation of the Pentateuch , The so-called Yahwist and the literary gap between Genesis and Exodus , The Pentateuch and its theological history , The late Persian formation of the Torah: observations on Deuteronomy 34 , The Persian imperial authorization as historical problem and as biblical construct: a plea for differentiations in the current debate , How to identify a Persian-period text in the Pentateuch , Genesis , Genesis in the Pentateuch , The ambivalence of human wisdom: Genesis 2-3 as a sapiental text , Loss of immortality?: hermeneutical aspects of Genesis 2-3 and its early receptions , Shifting political theologies in the literary development of the Jacob cycle , Returning the gift of the promise: the "salvation-historical" sense of Genesis 22 from the perspective of innerbiblical exegesis , The Joseph story in the Pentateuch , Sapiential anthropology in the Joseph story , The Moses story , Exodus in the Pentateuch , Taming Egypt: the impact of Persian imperial ideology and politics on the biblical exodus account , The Priestly document , The quest for "God": monotheistic arguments in the Priestly texts of the Hebrew Bible , From counterworld to real world: evolutionary cosmology and theology in the book of Genesis , Judean identity and ecumenicity: the political theology of the Priestly document , Sinai in the Priestly document , Legal texts , Divine legislation in the Pentateuch in its late Judean and neo-Babylonian context , Collective guilt?: the concept of overarching guilt relationships in the Hebrew Bible and in the ancient Near East , The monetization and demonetization of the human body: the case of compensatory payments for bodily injuries and homicide in ancient Near Eastern and ancient Israelite law books , The Pentateuch in the history of ancient Israel's religion , The canon and the cult: the emergence of book religion in ancient Israel and the gradual sublimation of the temple cult , Are there remnants of Hebrew paganism in the Hebrew Bible?: methodological reflections on the basis of Deuteronomy 32:8-9 and Psalm 82 , God of heaven, God of the world, and creator: God and the heavens in the literature of the Second Temple period.