The Pentateuch: A Social-Science Commentary
John Van Seters
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.
درجه (قاطیغوری(:
کال:
1999
خپرندویه اداره:
Bloomsbury T&T Clark
ژبه:
english
صفحه:
234
ISBN 10:
0567080889
ISBN 13:
9780567080882
لړ (سلسله):
Trajectories 1
فایل:
PDF, 12.61 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1999