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The Pentateuch: A Social-Science Commentary

By John Van Seters

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury T&T Clark
Year
1999
ISBN
0567080889, 9780567080882
Google Books ID
hWTDJoggF2cC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13227522 bytes)
Series
Trajectories 1
Pages
234\235
Topic
Religion
DPI
200
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-10-28 11:36:47

Description

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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