1 Konrad Schmid, “Genesis in the Pentateuch,” in: Craig A. Evans et al. (ed.), The Book of Genesis. Composition, Reception, and Interpretation, VTSup 152, Leiden: Brill, 2012, 27– 50. Genesis in the Pentateuch Konrad Schmid (Zürich) I. Introduction In the heyday of the Documentary Hypothesis it was a common assumption that most texts in Genesis were to be interpreted as elements of narrative threads that extended beyond the book of Genesis and at least had a pentateuchal or hexateuchal scope (J, E, and P). To a certain degree, exegesis of the book of Genesis was therefore tantamount to exegesis of the book of Genesis in the Pentateuch or Hexateuch. The Theologische Realenzyklopädie, one of the major lexica in the German-speaking realm, has for example no entry for “Genesis” but only for the “Pentateuch” and its alleged sources. At the same time, it was also recognized that the material—oral or written—which was processed and reworked by the authors of the sources J, E, and P originated within a more modest narrative perspective that was limited to the single stories or story cycles, a view emphasized especially by Julius Wellhausen, Hermann Gunkel, Kurt Galling, and Martin Noth: 1 J and E were not authors, but collectors. 2 1 Julius Wellhausen, Die Composition des Hexateuchs und der historischen Bücher des Alten Testaments (3d ed.; Berlin: Reimer 1899); Hermann Gunkel, Genesis (6th ed.; HKAT I/1; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1964; repr. from the 3d ed., (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1910); Kurt Galling, Die Erwählungstraditionen Israels. Giessen: Töpelmann, 1928; Martin Noth, A History of Pentateuchal Traditions Gunkel