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What is The Pentateuch about?

<p>The Pentateuch, in the Core Biblical Studies series, introduces the<br>Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and<br>Deuteronomy. It combines a purely literary approach to reading the<br>final form of the Pentateuch with a historical reading of the text. The<br>literary approach emphasizes the structural role played by the<br>so-called toledoth (generations) formulae that trace the history of<br>humankind from Adam, through the ancestors of Israel, and finally to<br>Moses and Aaron as the founders of Israel&rsquo;s priesthood. The historical<br>reading of the text challenges the older model of source analysis to<br>argue instead for a model that traces the composition of the Pentateuch<br>from its origins in northern Israel during the 9th-8th centuries<br>B.C.E., (E), through its subsequent editions in Judah during the 8th-7th<br>centuries B.C.E,. (J and D), and finally through the final redaction in<br>the Persian period, (P). <br><br>Discussion throughout the volume focuses on how the text presents the origins or early history of Israel<br>and its ideals or how it employs narrative and law to provide the<br>foundations for an ideal national and religious

Author

Sweeney, Marvin A.;

Publisher

United Methodist Publishing House

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781426765384