Biblical Sinai traditions

Israel Knohl is the Yehezkel Kaufmann professor of Hebrew Bible (emeritus) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a senior research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute Jerusalem. He served as a visiting professor at Harvard, Berkeley and Stanford Universities and the Chicago Divinity School. He is the author of 11 books and many articles.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Beginning of Writing; the Beginning of Biblical Literature.- Chapter 2. The Location of Mt. Sinai in Hebrew Biblical Poetry.- Chapter 3 Mt. Sinai and the Midianites-Kenites.- Chapter 4. Tablets and Covenant in Ancient Poetry.- Chapter 5: Revelation and the Covenant and its Breaking at the Waters of Meribah.- Chapter 6: The Waters of Meribah and the Waters of Marah.- Chapter 7: The Tradition of the Spring, the Tradition of the Mountain and the Beginning of Literacy in the Northern  Kingdom.- Chapter 8. The Northern Author and the Book of the Covenant.- Chapter 9: An Egalitarian Revelation by the Water, a Private Revelation at the Mountain.- Chapter 10: The Northern Author and the Prophetic Tent.- Conclusion.