This overview of the Pentateuch reviews the various historical-critical attempts to read it that arise from notions about the social evolution of Israel's religion and culture. Is the Pentateuch an accumulation of folk traditions, a work of ancient historiography, a document legitimizing religious reform? The present book, in dialogue with competing views, advocates a compositional model that recognizes the social and historical diversity of the literary strata. It argues that a proto-Pentateuchal author created a ...
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This overview of the Pentateuch reviews the various historical-critical attempts to read it that arise from notions about the social evolution of Israel's religion and culture. Is the Pentateuch an accumulation of folk traditions, a work of ancient historiography, a document legitimizing religious reform? The present book, in dialogue with competing views, advocates a compositional model that recognizes the social and historical diversity of the literary strata. It argues that a proto-Pentateuchal author created a comprehensive history from Genesis to Numbers that was written as a prologue to the Deuteronomistic History (Deuteronomy to 2 Kings) in the exilic period and later expanded by a Priestly writer to make it the foundational document of the Jerusalem temple community.
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Good. 233p. A black cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Ex-library; original binding. Faint label residue on spine; no other exterior library markings. Labels on endpapers and stamp on title page. Text clean and binding tight. Scarce in hardcover.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 184127027X. Lightly crimped corner, pen check in the margin on one page, otherwise text clean and solid; Trajectories: A Social-Science Commentary; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 240 pages.
