Oracular law and priestly historiography in the Torah /

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Author / Creator:	Chavel, Simeon, author.
Imprint:	Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, 2014. ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (364 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe, 1611-4914 ; 71 Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe ; 71.
Subject:	Bible. -- Pentateuch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- Pentateuch -- Criticism, Narrative. Bible. -- Pentateuch -- Criticism, Textual. Bible. -- Pentateuch -- Language, style.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10885102
Related Items:	Print version: Oracular law and priestly historiography in the Torah.

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ISBN:	9783161533426 3161533429 9783161533419
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	In this study, Simeon Chavel establishes the existence of a distinct type of story within the Torah, the ""oracular novella, "" traces its contours and poetics, identifies its historical background, and analyzes its use. The oracular novella is a very short story with a legal climax, in which divine adjudication and legislation resolves human complication. In a spartan style, the narrative recounts how an incident or set of circumstances in Israel led through oracular inquiry of Moses to legal resolution by Yahweh. The Torah contains four oracular novellas, all in the Priestly History, two acti.
Other form:	Print version: Chavel, Simeon. Oracular law and priestly historiography in the Torah. Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, ©2014 x, 353 pages Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe ; 71 9783161533419

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