The Pentateuch: A Social-science Commentary - Brossura

Seters, John Van

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ISBN 10: 0567080889 ISBN 13: 9780567080882

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2004

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

John Van Seters is Distinguished University Professor emeritus, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina and currently lives in Canada.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury T & T Clark
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0567080889
• ISBN 13: 9780567080882
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240