Wilderness Narratives in the Hebrew Bible

Religion, Politics, and Biblical Interpretation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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In this volume, Angela Erisman offers a new way to think about the Pentateuch/Torah and its relationship to history. She returns to the seventeenth-century origins of modern biblical scholarship and charts a new course – not through Julius Wellhausen and the Documentary Hypothesis, but through Herrman Gunkel. Erisman reimagines his vision of a literary history grounded in communal experience as a history of responses to political threat before, during, and after the demise of Judah in 586 BCE. She explores creative transformations of genre and offers groundbreaking new readings of key episodes in the wilderness narratives. Offering new answers to old questions about the nature of the exodus, the identity of Moses, and his death in the wilderness, Erisman's study draws from literary and historical criticism. Her synthesis of approaches enables us to situate the wilderness narratives historically, and to understand how and why they continue to be meaningful for readers today.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-12-19
Mått160 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt642 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor368
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108499750

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'In this masterful volume, Erisman demonstrates how crucial the wilderness narratives are for understanding the Pentateuch as a response to Israel and Judah's historical experience. Drawing on the best of documentary and supplementary approaches, she offers a distinctive account of the Pentateuch's development. Every page reveals fresh exegetical insights as various theoretical perspectives are combined with ease and elegance. It is not only a novel and compelling journey through the narratives of Exodus and Numbers, but a model for how to do work that is literarily sensitive and historically aware.' Nathan MacDonald, University of Cambridge