The story of Massah-Meribah is a pluriform tradition within the Hebrew Bible. Part One of this
book uses redaction analysis to assess diachronically the six reminiscences of this tradition
within Deuteronomy (Deut 6:16 8:15 9:22 32:13 52 33:8). The relative chronological
relationship of these texts and the tradition components they preserve reveals a framework of
five formative stages of this story's tradition-history from the perspective of the tradents
responsible for the production of Deuteronomy. Part Two is a redactional study of the
tradition's narratives in Exod 17:1-7 and Num 20:1-13. Special attention is devoted to the
texts that anchor the Massah-Meribah narratives into the Pentateuch. In the end Part Two not
only corroborates the framework detected in Deuteronomy for the formative stages of the
Massah-Meribah tradition but it also carries broad implications for the formation of the
Pentateuch in general and the Wilderness Narrative in particular.
