History of Technology Volume 28: Special Issue: By Whose Standards? Standardization, Stability and Uniformity in the History of Information and Electr
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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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:082643875X
ISBN13:9780826438751
Release Date:May 2009
Publisher:Continnuum-3PL
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.97 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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