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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453834503321

Autore

Bartusch Mark W

Titolo

Understanding Dan [[electronic resource] ] : an exegetical study of a Biblical city, tribe and ancestor / / Mark W. Bartusch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, : Sheffield Academic Press, c2003

ISBN

1-281-80309-X

9786611803094

0-8264-3975-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 379

Disciplina

220.9'5

220.9''5

221.95

Soggetti

Dan (Tribe of Israel)

Electronic books.

Dan (Extinct city)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 INTERPRETING DAN IN THE PENTATEUCH; Chapter 3 INTERPRETING DAN IN THE FORMER PROPHETS; Chapter 4 INTERPRETING DAN IN THE LATTER PROPHETS; Chapter 5 INTERPRETING DAN IN THE BOOKS OF CHRONICLES; Chapter 6 CONCLUSIONS AND FINAL REMARKS; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates the Dan/Danite tradition in the Hebrew Bible to determine not only what the Bible tells us about Dan, but also how far traditions about the territory, city, ancestor and tribe may have influenced each other. Bartusch argues that the political and theological interests reflected in the relatively late work of the Deuteronomistic Historian have cast a shadow over some earlier traditions, and that by combining social-science models and newer literary criticism with the more traditional historical-critical methodologies, the original meaning of the traditions of Dan may be r