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THE TOLEDOT OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS AND THEIR REDEMPTIVE-HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

THE OCCURRENCE of a system of ten toledot-divisions throughout the book of Genesis has long had the attention of Old Testament scholars. These toledot, translated "genera-tions" in the both the standard documentary hypothesis and the oral tradition approach to the Pentateuch, has developed the thesis that the toledot in Genesis are evidence of the fact that at the time of Moses' writing activities written texts were already available in great abundance. Calling attention to the colophons or catch phrases which are used as titles of ancient texts, Wiseman expresses the opinion that the phrase "these are the generations of.. ." is such a colophon, identifying texts used by Moses, the inspired author, in setting forth the history of God's dealing with the line of promise (cf. The present writer's interest in the possible significance of these toledot for the development of the line of promise was first aroused by the lectures which the late Professor B. Holwerda presented in 1946 at Kampen Theological Seminary in the Netherlands. Professor Holwerda then lectured on the "gener-ations" of Isaac (Gen. 25:19). Unfortunately, Professor Hol-werda's views were available only to Dutch readers until a few years ago. But in 1964 Dr. Samuel R. Kulling, professor of Old Testament at the Prediger Seminar in Sankt Chrischona near Basel, in a study entitled Zur Datierung Der "Genesis-P-Stucke" (Kampen: J. H. Kok, 1964) made these views available in the German language as well. Moreover, in a commentary on the first few chapters of Genesis written by Professor W. H. Gispen of the Free University of Amsterdam the views of Professor Hol-werda have again found further endorsement (Schepping en Paradijs [Kampen : J. H. Kok, 19661). A brief summary of Professor Holwerda's views would seem to be called for in a 184