Biblical books which were transmitted on separate scrolls in antiquity are not necessarily
identical with books in the modern sense of a coherent and self-contained compositional unit.
The books of the Primary History especially constitute a larger master narrative. This raises
the question of how the distribution of the text to different scrolls relates to its
compositional history. Were the respective books conceived as physically separate parts of a
multivolume composition (whether Pentateuch Hexateuch Deuteronomistic History or Enneateuch)
from the outset or are we dealing with a more complex development of originally independent
compositional units that were only connected or separated by later redaction? The present
volume addresses these issues with respect to the transitions between the books of Genesis
Exodus and Joshua Judges which have obviously developed in dependency upon each other.
