Pentateuch(English, Paperback, Seters John van)

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Pentateuch(English, Paperback, Seters John van) is written by Seters John van and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0567080889 (ISBN 10) and 9780567080882 (ISBN 13).

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.