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The story of the stories : the chosen people and its God
- Title
- The story of the stories : the chosen people and its God / Dan Jacobson.
- Author
- Jacobson, Dan, 1929-2014.
- Publication
- New York : Harper & Row, ©1982.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 211 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "The Story of the Stories is a continually brilliant reading of the Hebrew and Christian testaments as a coherent narrative--formed collectively over many generations but always centered on a single subject: the exalted and fearful covenant between God and Israel."--Book jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [209]-211.
- Contents
- Leaving the land -- The conquest of the land -- The choice -- The covenant -- The rejection -- Renewal -- Prophets, poets, and politicians -- Peripeteia -- Ethics, fantasy, and history -- The oneness of Yahweh -- Some Christian transpusitions -- Forward and back.
- ISBN
- 0060149868
- 9780060149864
- LCCN
- 81048154
- OCLC
- ocm07998868
- 7998868
- SCSB-37462
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library