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The Vision of the Priestly Narrative: Its Genre and Hermeneutics of Time

By Suzanne Boorer

Book information

Publisher
SBL Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780884140627, 0884140628, 9780884140641, 0884140644
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4414635 bytes)
Series
Ancient Israel and Its Literature 27
Pages
xvi+620\637
Topic
Religion
Time added
2018-07-11 22:26:22
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Description

Boorer explores the theology of an originally independent Priestly narrative (Pg), extending through Genesis-Numbers, as a whole. In this book she describes the structure of the Priestly narrative, in particular its coherent sequential and parallel patterns. Boorer argues that at every point in the narrative's sequential and parallel structure, it reshapes past traditions, synthesizing these with contemporary and unique elements into future visions, in a way that is akin to the timelessness of liturgical texts. The book sheds new light on what this material might have sought to accomplish as a whole, and how it might have functioned for, its original audience  Read more...

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