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Retelling the Torah

The Deuteronomistic Historians Use of Tetrateuchal Narratives

  • Hardback
  • 136 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1 cm

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The Deuteronomistic Historian patterned more than four dozen of his narratives after those in Genesis-Numbers. The stories that make up Genesis-Numbers were indelibly impressed on the Deuteronomistic Historian's mind, to such an extent that in Deuteronomy-Kings he tells the stories of the nation through the lens of Genesis-Numbers. John Harvey discusses the eight criteria which may be used as evidence that the given stories in Deuteronomy-Kings were based on those in Genesis-Numbers. Unified accounts in the Deuteronomistic History, for instance, often share striking parallels with two or more redactional layers of their corresponding accounts in Genesis-Numbers, showing that the given accounts in the Deuteronomistic History were written after the corresponding accounts in Genesis-Numbers had been written. Furthermore, the Deuteronomistic Historian calls the reader's attention to accounts in Genesis-Numbers by explicitly citing and referring to them, by using personal names, and by drawing thematic and verbal parallels. Retelling the Torah, the first book to focus on these parallel narratives, contains far-reaching implications for Hebrew Bible scholarship. This is volume 403 in the
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  • Author

    John E. Harvey

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    June 2004

  • Weight

    346g

  • Page Count

    136

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567080950

  • ISBN-10

    0567080951

  • Eden Code

    1152180

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