The Torah is a loop:
"Nonsedentary diaspora life is established by entering Egypt from Canaan.
Sedentary national life is established by entering Canaan from Egypt“
The most beautiful literary ring structure you will ever see. Enclosed within the loop are the establishment templates stolen from the Rig Veda's Hymn of Man verses 10-12 in which pastoral Man (known as Melchizedek in Genesis, the warrior priest) is dismembered into functional classes of priests (Aaron) and warriors (Joshua) to create national Man exactly as he is dismembered in the Rig Veda whose Vedic Aryans are Aryana or Iranians / Persians who use the word Arya to define a superior population characterized by opposition to non-Iranians (Briant, Cyrus to Alexander 180-181) just as the chosen people are superior to the peoples of Canaan in the Torah. Who is there left to say that the earth's primal parents can be known? Will it be you? If there are relics of the Iron Age in the Torah and the Deuteronomic history, they are bits and pieces whose historical import is at best secondary to their primary theological import.
A literary structure that consists of the establishment template for a successful diaspora and the establishment template for a nation with a separate theology for each: Melchizedek's law written on the heart for the patriarchs in Genesis, and Moses' law written on stone tablets for the nation in Exodus-Deuteronomy. These are still the establishment structures of Judaism, alive in the 21st century.
The Torah "loop" approximates the province of Beyond-Euprates where Ezra is empowered to appoint judges who will enforce the law of his God and the law of the king.
The Torah loop and the Rig Vedic template assure us that what redaction has occurred cannot have changed the face or the primary import of the Pentateuch since it was enclosed within that loop and that Vedic template.
Could these literary structures have been possible in the Iron Age?
The Torah is a loop:
"Nonsedentary diaspora life is established by entering Egypt from Canaan.
Sedentary national life is established by entering Canaan from Egypt“
The most beautiful literary ring structure you will ever see. Enclosed within the loop are the establishment templates stolen from the Rig Veda's Hymn of Man verses 10-12 in which pastoral Man (known as Melchizedek in Genesis, the warrior priest) is dismembered into functional classes of priests (Aaron) and warriors (Joshua) to create national Man exactly as he is dismembered in the Rig Veda whose Vedic Aryans are Aryana or Iranians / Persians who use the word Arya to define a superior population characterized by opposition to non-Iranians (Briant, Cyrus to Alexander 180-181) just as the chosen people are superior to the peoples of Canaan in the Torah. Who is there left to say that the earth's primal parents can be known? Will it be you? If there are relics of the Iron Age in the Torah and the Deuteronomic history, they are bits and pieces whose historical import is at best secondary to their primary theological import.
A literary structure that consists of the establishment template for a successful diaspora and the establishment template for a nation with a separate theology for each: Melchizedek's law written on the heart for the patriarchs in Genesis, and Moses' law written on stone tablets for the nation in Exodus-Deuteronomy. These are still the establishment structures of Judaism, alive in the 21st century.
The Torah "loop" approximates the province of Beyond-Euprates where Ezra is empowered to appoint judges who will enforce the law of his God and the law of the king.
The Torah loop and the Rig Vedic template assure us that what redaction has occurred cannot have changed the face or the primary import of the Pentateuch since it was enclosed within that loop and that Vedic template.
Could these literary structures have been possible in the Iron Age?