The Promise to the Patriarchs - Rilegato

Baden, Joel S.

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ISBN 10: 0199898243 ISBN 13: 9780199898244

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2013

Riassunto

The promise of land and progeny to the patriarchs-Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob-is a central, recurring feature of the Pentateuch. From the beginning of the story of Abraham to the last moment of Moses's life, this promise forms the guiding theological statement for each narrative. Yet literary and historical inquiries ascribe the promise texts to a variety of sources, layers, and redactions, raising questions about how the promise functioned in its original manifestations and how it can be used to understand the formation of the Pentateuch as a whole.

Joel S. Baden reexamines the patriarchal promise in its historical and contemporaneous contexts, evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of both final-form and literary-historical approaches to the promise. He pays close attention to the methodologies employed in both documentary and non-documentary analyses and aims to bring source-critical analysis of the promise to bear on the understanding of the canonical text for contemporary readers. The Promise to the Patriarchs addresses the question of how the literary-historical perspective can illuminate and even deepen the theological meaning of the Pentateuch, particularly of the promise at the heart of this central biblical corpus.

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Recensione:

eloquent and erudite ... Baden's research offers a refreshing strategy for engaging familiar methodologies as a means to consider anew narrative details of the Pentateuch ... Recommended. (H. M. Szpek, CHOICE)

L'autore:

Associate Professor of Old Testament at the Yale Divinity School

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199898243
• ISBN 13: 9780199898244
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240