TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chavel,Simeon
TI  - Oracular law and priestly historiography in the Torah /Simeon Chavel
T2  - Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe,
SN  - 9783161533426
AV  - BS1225 .O733 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Tübingen, Germany
PB  - Mohr Siebeck
KW  - Bible
KW  - Pentateuch
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Criticism, Narrative
KW  - Criticism, Textual
KW  - Language, style
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - 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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