Papers presented at a meeting held at the Ludwig-Maximillians-Universitat, Munich, in 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pro Pent. : a project for the study of the Pentateuch in South Africa / Jurie Le Roux -- The Pentateuch between synchrony and diachrony : perspectives for the encounter between Africa and Europe / Eckart Otto -- Synchrony and/or diachrony : is there a way out of the methodological labyrinth? / Alphonso Groenewald -- The need for a new vision of the Torah / Georg Fischer -- Africa in need of an Exodus?! : perspectives on the theology of Exodus 15:1-21 / Dirk J. Human -- Deuteronomy 15:1-18 and poverty in (South) Africa / Eben Scheffler -- "And by these were the nations divided in the earth" : redactional techniques in the primeval history / Martin Arneth -- The story of the revelation at the mountain of God and the redactional editions of the Hexateuch and the Pentateuch / Reinhard Achenbach -- What is Isaac doing in Amos 7? : / Christo Lombaard -- Der Pentateuch in der spätbiblischen Weisheit Ben Siras / Friedrich Reiterer -- Gilgamesh, Africa and the Pentateuch / Gerda De Villiers.

This volume contains the lectures given at the 2004 meeting of ProPent (Project Pentateuch), which is an annual meeting designed to foster discussion of Pentateuch studies among African and European scholars. Different approaches to the Pentateuch are discussed, especially how to correlate diachronical and synchronical approaches to the Torah.