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  title info:
    title: Inconsistency in the Torah
    sub title: ancient literary convention and the limits of source criticism
  name:
    name part: Berman, Joshua
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  genre: Llibres electrònics.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "Rather than viewing inconsistencies in the Torah as signs of revision, this book identifies precursors for these phenomena in ancient Near Eastern writings. It claims that Enlightenment and German historicist influences corrupted critical study of the Bible, and calls for a return to the more modest agenda set out by Spinoza"--
  table of contents: PART 1: INCONSISTENCY IN NARRATIVE. Setting Conflicting Histories Side by Side. 1. Diverging Account within the Kadesh Inscriptions of Ramesses II -- 2. The Exodus Sea Account (Exod. 13:17-15:19) in Light of the Kadesh Inscriptions of Ramesses II. Disparity in the Sovereign's Recounting of History to His Vassal. 3. Divergent Histories between Original and Renewal Treaties Hittite Diplomatic Literature -- 4. Retold History in the Book Deuteronomy Light of the Hittite Treaty Tradition.
  table of contents: PART 2: INCONSISTENCY IN LAW. 5. The Pivotal Characterization: Ancient Law as Non-Statutory Law -- 6. The Misapplication of "Strict Construction" and the Semblance of Contradiction -- 7. Honoring a Law Code and Diverging from Its Dictate in the neo-Babylonian King of Justice and in the Book of Ruth -- Blending Discordant Laws in Biblical Narrative -- Legal Revision the Torah Law collections: Supersessionist or Complementary? -- 10. Redacting the Torah's Conflicting Law: new Empirical Models.
  table of contents: PART 3: RENEWING PENTATEUCHAL CRTICSM. 11. A Critical Intellectual History of the Historical-Critical Paradigm in Biblical Studies -- 12. The Abuses Negation, Bisection and Suppression in the Dating of Biblical Texts -- The Rescue of Moses (Exodus 2:1-10) -- 13. Source Criticism and its Biases: The Flood Narrative of Genesis 6-9 -- Conclusion: A New Path Forward.
  note: Joshua A. Berman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: Old Testament
    topic: Criticism, interpretation, etc
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: Ancien Testament
    topic: Critique et interprétation
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bíblia
      part name: Antic Testament
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: Old Testament
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
    topic: Biblical Studies
    topic: Old Testament
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
    topic: Judaism
    topic: Sacred Writings
  subject:
    topic: Torà (Paraula hebrea)
  classification: BS1178.H4 B47 2017
  classification: 221.601
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161003
    record change date: 20260319162727.8
    record identifier: in00005713730
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng