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This volume contains 15 papers written by Christoph Levin between 2001 and 2011, four of them unpublished. One main focus is on the Pentateuch, mainly on the oldest comprehensive narrative source, the Yahwist, which was written at the beginning of the Jewish diaspora. A second focus is on the books of Kings, on their chronological structure as well as on the final two chapters 2 Kgs 24-25. Christoph Levin also deals with the Israelite religion in the time of the monarchy, the origins of biblical Covenant theology, and the Old Testament attitude to poverty. All the papers are based on a detailed investigation into the literary growth of the biblical text. The author shows that the Old Testament as we know it originated from a process of continual re-reading during the Second Temple period.

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Christoph Levin ist Professor für Altes Testament an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind die Literaturgeschichte des Alten Testaments und die Geschichte und Religionsgeschichte des vorexilischen Israel und Juda sowie des Judentums in der Perserzeit.

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