History of Technology Volume 28 : Special Issue: By Whose Standards? Standardization, Stability and Uniformity in the History of Information and Electr
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780826438751
- ISBN-10: 082643875X
- Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
- Publish Date: May 2009
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.97 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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