He Swore an Oath: Biblical Themes from Genesis 12-50 - Softcover

Hess, Richard S.; Wenham, Gordon J.

9780801020148: He Swore an Oath: Biblical Themes from Genesis 12-50

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080102014X ISBN 13: 9780801020148

Publisher: Baker Pub Group, 1995

This book updates the latest scholarship on some of the most significant texts of Genesis. The essays, opinions, and ideas presented by leading Old Testament scholars respond to assumptions that Genesis does not recount people and events of the 20th Century. Includes discussions which look at fundamental perspectives for understanding the rest of the Bible.

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About the Author:

Richard S. Hess (PhD, Hebrew Union College) is Earl S. Kalland Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Denver Seminary in Littleton, Colorado, and editor of the" Denver Journal". He is the author or editor of more than forty books, including "Ancient Israel's History", "Israelite Religions", "Song of Songs" in the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms, and the commentary on Joshua in the Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries series"."

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