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Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Pentateuch (Volume 1) (Exploring the Bible Series) - Softcover

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Wenham, Gordon J.

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9780830853090: Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Pentateuch (Volume 1) (Exploring the Bible Series)
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ISBN 10: 083085309X ISBN 13: 9780830853090
Publisher: IVP Academic, 2016

Synopsis

Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Pentateuch offers a clear overview of the "five books of Moses," as well as an introduction to the historical and textual questions that modern scholarship has posed and the answers it has proposed.This critically informed, textually sensitive introduction to the Pentateuch introduces students to

  • the basic features of the Pentateuch
  • the social world of the Bible
  • the latest scholarship on the composition of the Pentateuch
  • literary techniques and forms
  • theme, composition and rhetorical function of the Pentateuch

In this textbook you will find double-column formatting for ease of use, annotated bibliographies for further reading, sidebar explorations of select historical and textual topics in greater detail, a glossary of terms, and relevant charts and maps.

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About the Author

Gordon J. Wenham is lecturer in Old Testament at Trinity College, Bristol. He was formerly professor of Old Testament at the University of Gloucestershire and is well known for his commentaries on Genesis, Leviticus and Numbers, as well as other studies in the Pentateuch.

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Publisher
IVP Academic
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
083085309X
ISBN 13 
9780830853090
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
239
Rating
  • 3.80 out of 5 stars
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