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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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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
  • Bible > History of Biblical events
  • Bible
  • Bible > History of Biblical events
  • To 70
  • Jews > History > To 70 A.D
  • History of Biblical events
  • Jews
  • Beloofde land
  • Babylonische ballingschap (vc0586-vc0521)
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