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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: poetic Priestly source
  name:
    name part: Gaines, Jason M. H.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: heb
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 525 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  abstract: Much of scholarly research on the Pentateuch has revolved around the question of sources and how they might be identified by differences in vocabulary, theme, and characterization. Jason M. H. Gaines brings a different perspective to the delineation of the Priestly source (P) by applying specific criteria for the identification of biblical Hebrew poetry. These criteria allow him to distinguish a nearly complete poetic P stratum ("Poetic P"), coherent in literary, narrative, and ideological terms, from a later prose redaction ("Prosaic P"), which is fragmentary, supplemental (filling out mundane details including names dates, ages, places, numbers, and so on), and distinct in thematic presentation and apparent theological concern. Gaines describes the whole of the "Poetic P" source and offers a Hebrew reconstruction of the document. He also outlines the different emphases of the two strata, including differences in the characterization of patriarchs and of God's treatment of a disobedient Israel. The result is a coherent and dramatically innovative understanding of the history of the Priestly composition that is sure to draw keen interest and to open up new vistas in the study of the Pentateuch.
  table of contents: Introduction -- 1. Identifying poetic features in Biblical texts -- 2. Differentiating poetic and prosaic texts -- 3. Poetic elements in priestly narrative -- 4. Poetic and prosaic strata in Genesis 6-9 -- 5. The priestly source in scholarship -- 6. Preliminary divisions between poetic and prosaic priestly strata -- 7. Conclusion.
  note: Jason M.H. Gaines.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 468-507) and indexes.
  note: Includes Hebrew text.
  subject:
    topic: P document (Biblical criticism)
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: Pentateuch
    topic: Criticism, interpretation, etc
  subject:
    topic: Hebrew poetry, Biblical
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: Pentateuch
  subject:
    topic: Hebrew poetry, Biblical
  subject:
    topic: P document (Biblical criticism)
  classification: BS1181.6 .G35 2015
  classification: 220.7
  identifier: 145149436X
  identifier: 9781451494365
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 150325
    record change date: 20170927134442.0
    record identifier: in00003759603
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng