Major Motifs in the Pentateuchal Portrayal of Moses as a Proto-monarch
Author: Danny Mathews
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 420
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Author: Danny Mathews
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 420
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Danny Mathews
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2012-05-24
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 056711614X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoses is portrayed through the use of royal motifs: his abandonment at birth, flight from Pharaoh, portrayal as shepherd, temple builder, military general, and lawgiver.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-11-13
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9004685758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores concepts of fiction in late antique hagiographical narrative in different cultural and literary traditions. It includes Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Persian and Arabic material. Whereas scholarship in these texts has traditionally focussed on historical questions, this book approaches imaginative narrative as an inherent element of the genre of hagiography that deserves to be studied in its own right. The chapters explore narrative complexities related to fiction, such as invention, authentication, intertextuality, imagination and fictionality. Together, they represent an innovative exploration of how these concepts relate to hagiographical discourses of truth and the religious notion of belief, while paying due attention to the various factors and contexts that impact readers’ responses.
Author: Matthew O’Farrell
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-10-31
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9004523774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an examination of the legendary biographies of Constantine I and Ardashir I A Memorial in the World argues that the two share a literary heritage and that both were created to serve a similar purpose.
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Published: 2009-06
Total Pages: 546
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Herbert Wolf
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2007-07-01
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1575674424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pentateuch--Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy--are the vital first books in the Bible. understanding the scope, meaning, and events of these five books is integral to understanding the whole of Scripture that follows. Old Testament expert Herbert Wolf provides layreaders and scholars alike with a strong undergirding of understanding and knowledge in this introduction that reveals both the seriousness and excitement of the Pentateuch. Readers will find Adam, Abraham, Joseph, Moses and Joshua in these pages, as well as terrible sin and glorious forgiveness, bloody sacrifices and battles, deadly betrayal and life-giving hope. Wolf first addresses the overarching themes that flow through the Pentateuch, with special attention given to Moses as author of the five books. He then addresses each book specifically, covering topics such as purpose and scope, and literary structure. He tailors additional study to each specific book. This book contributes significantly to a clear, deep understanding of the Bible's first five books.
Author: George W. Coats
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1993-08-01
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0567067084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays from the doyen of Moses studies focus on issues primarily in Pentatuchal/Hexateuchal research. The volume, containing several papers previously unpublished, forms a companion volume to Coats's 'Moses: Heroic Man, Man of God'. Together the two volumes comprise the whole of Coats's unique and wide-ranging investigations of the figure of Moses.
Author: Jacob L. Wright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-07-23
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1108574300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Hebrew Bible is permeated with depictions of military conflicts that have profoundly shaped the way many think about war. Why does war occupy so much space in the Bible? In this book, Jacob Wright offers a fresh and fascinating response to this question: War pervades the Bible not because ancient Israel was governed by religious factors (such as 'holy war') or because this people, along with its neighbors in the ancient Near East, was especially bellicose. The reason is rather that the Bible is fundamentally a project of constructing a new national identity for Israel, one that can both transcend deep divisions within the population and withstand military conquest by imperial armies. Drawing on the intriguing interdisciplinary research on war commemoration, Wright shows how biblical authors, like the architects of national identities from more recent times, constructed a new and influential notion of peoplehood in direct relation to memories of war, both real and imagined. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author: Martin Noth
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 0567038025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMartin Noth's study of the Chronicler's History may not be so widely known as his celebrated Deuteronomistic History (published by JSOT Press in English translation in 1981). However, as Williamson argues in his introduction, written specially to accompany this translation, it was a most significant contribution to the study of Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, and a translation of it has been long overdue. In view of the recent revival of interest in this body of literature, it is important that English-speaking readers should have first-hand access to one of the seminal studies in this field.
Author: Christine Hayes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-17
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 1107036151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law provides a conceptual and historical account of the Jewish understanding of law.