Jaeyoung Jeon, “The Visit of Jethro (Exodus 18): Its Composition and Levitical Reworking”, Journal of Biblical Literature, 136.2, 2017, 289-306 According to Jaeyoung Jeon Exodus 18 contains redactions by a Levitical scribe/scribal group. He intends to prove this claim by discussing the narrative of Jethro’s visit and how it connects with Exodus 3-4. After that he plans to look at verses 8-11 of Exodus 18 to look at the possibility of a reworking by comparing its language with that of later biblical text. Finally using 2 Chr 17 and 19 as a point of comparison Jeon plans to look at the dating and examine the authorship of verses 13-16. Using these comparisons and other linguistic pieces Jeon intends to prove his thesis. Jeon treats Exodus 18
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He believes these sections contain multiple redaction and expansions the earliest of which dates to the second commissioning of Moses. There are so few post priestly insertions including the stuff of God motive and the third commissioning. Since these are old work into the Midianite narrative Jeon defines Midianite narrative as a “Proto Exodus narrative” (292). Jeon looks at Exodus 18 as a continuation of chapters 3 through four specifically the first commissioning which takes place in 3:9-15. He points out that well the passage is usually considered to be an original independent text some features such as rhetorical markers at the beginning of first nine prove that these versus cannot be independent but presuppose other versus Specifically verses 7-8. Jeon believes that there is proof of a d reduction in Exodus 3:9-15 that deals with prophetic signs and the name of YHWH which are Deuteronomistic criteria for determining someone is truly a prophet. Since Moses is the idea of what a profit should be in Deuteronomistic ideas, according to Jeon, it would make sense that there would be a redactor to legitimize Moses this early in the Exodus narrative. One sign that Jeon uses as an example is it was said that Moses needed to worship God on the mountain of God to be legitimized and Exodus 18:12 is said to
He believes these sections contain multiple redaction and expansions the earliest of which dates to the second commissioning of Moses. There are so few post priestly insertions including the stuff of God motive and the third commissioning. Since these are old work into the Midianite narrative Jeon defines Midianite narrative as a “Proto Exodus narrative” (292). Jeon looks at Exodus 18 as a continuation of chapters 3 through four specifically the first commissioning which takes place in 3:9-15. He points out that well the passage is usually considered to be an original independent text some features such as rhetorical markers at the beginning of first nine prove that these versus cannot be independent but presuppose other versus Specifically verses 7-8. Jeon believes that there is proof of a d reduction in Exodus 3:9-15 that deals with prophetic signs and the name of YHWH which are Deuteronomistic criteria for determining someone is truly a prophet. Since Moses is the idea of what a profit should be in Deuteronomistic ideas, according to Jeon, it would make sense that there would be a redactor to legitimize Moses this early in the Exodus narrative. One sign that Jeon uses as an example is it was said that Moses needed to worship God on the mountain of God to be legitimized and Exodus 18:12 is said to