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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453316303321

Autore

Coats George W

Titolo

The Moses tradition [[electronic resource] /] / George W. Coats

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, Eng., : JSOT Press, c1993

ISBN

1-281-80370-7

9786611803704

0-567-06708-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 161

Altri autori (Persone)

SunHenry

Disciplina

222.1092

222/.1092

Soggetti

Criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Sixteen essays, four of which are published for the first time."--Foreword.

"Editing ... by Henry Sun."--Foreword.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 I WILL BE WITH YOU; Chapter 2 MOSES IN MIDIAN; Chapter 3 MOSES VERSUS AMALEK: AETIOLOGY AND LEGEND IN EXODUS 17.8-16; Chapter 4 HISTORY AND THEOLOGY IN THE SEA TRADITION; Chapter 5 THE KING'S LOYAL OPPOSITION: OBEDIENCE AND AUTHORITY IN EXODUS 32-34; Chapter 6 LEGENDARY MOTIFS IN THE MOSES DEATH REPORTS; Chapter 7 HUMILITY AND HONOR: A MOSES LEGEND IN NUMBERS 12; Chapter 8 METANOIA IN ANCIENT ISRAEL: CLUES FOR UNITY AND CHANGE; Chapter 9 MOSES AS A MODEL FOR MINISTRY: AN EXEGESIS OF EXODUS 2.11-22

Chapter 10 THE FAILURE OF THE HERO: MOSES AS A MODEL FOR MINISTRYChapter 11 THE GOLDEN CALF IN PSALM 22; Chapter 12 HEALING AND THE MOSES TRADITIONS; Chapter 13 STRIFE AND BROKEN INTIMACY: GENESIS 1-3: PROLEGOMENA TO A BIBLICAL THEOLOGY; Chapter 14 VIOLENCE IN THE HEROIC TRADITION: A CHARACTERISTIC MOTIF IN BIBLICAL SAGAS; Chapter 15 THE UNITY OF ISAIAH: AN EXERCISE IN CANON CRITICISM; Chapter 16 SCOPE AND STRUCTURE FOR THE YAHWIST: WHERE DOES IT END?; Index of



References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

These 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 The volume, containing several papers previously unpublished, forms a companion volume to Coats's 'Moses: Heroic Man, Man of God'.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.