Research Catalog

Title

Ethnic myths and pentateuchal foundations : a new approach to the formation of the Pentateuch / by E. Theodore Mullen, Jr.

Author

Mullen, E. Theodore.

Publication

Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, c1997.

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Description

ix, 350 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Semeia studies

Uniform Title

Semeia studies.

Subject

• Bible. > Criticism, Redaction
• Jews > Historiography. > To 1200 B.C

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-346) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Another study of the Pentateuch : some prefatory remarks -- The relationship of Torah and Pentateuch -- Tetrateuch, Pentateuch, primary history : identifying the subject of study -- The primeval history : origins and relationships : stability and chaos as dependent upon obedience -- The patriarchal stories : myths of migration and the promise of the land : the character of a people -- The Exodus stories : myths of bondage and liberation : the background of covenant -- The cultic encampment and the purity of the people : identity, sacrality, and the divine paradox -- Toward the land : the reconstruction of community -- Deuteronomy and the tetrateuch : redefining community -- Postscript : recreating a community.

ISBN

• 0788503812 (alk. paper)
• 0788503820 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97023857^//r98

OCLC

37187455

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library