Exploring the Old Testament

by Wenham, Gordon J.

• ISBN13: 9780830825417
• ISBN10: 083082541X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780830870080
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780830825516, 9780830853090
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Ivp Academic
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Summary

Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Pentateuchoffers a clear overview of the "five books of Moses," as well as an introduction to the historical and textual questions that modern scholarship has posed and the answers it has proposed.This critically informed, textually sensitive introduction to the Pentateuch introduces students tothe basic features of the Pentateuchthe social world of the Biblethe latest scholarship on the composition of the Pentateuchliterary techniques and formstheme, composition and rhetorical function of the PentateuchIn this textbook you will find double-column formatting for ease of use, annotated bibliographies for further reading, sidebar explorations of select historical and textual topics in greater detail, a glossary of terms, and relevant charts and maps.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Key to Panels

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Abbreviations

What Is the Pentateuch? Basic Features

Genesis 1--11

Genesis 12--50

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Theme of the Pentateuch

Composition of the Pentateuch

Rhetoric of the Pentateuch

Epilogue

Glossary

Index

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