Oracular law and priestly historiography in the Torah / Simeon Chavel. [electronic resource]
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TextSeries: Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe ; ; 71.Publication details: Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (364 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9783161533426
- BS1225.52
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| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | BS1225.52 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn905860304 |
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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