Inconsistency in the Torah
Subtitle: ancient literary convention and the limits of source criticism
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780190658809
Description: "Rather than viewing inconsistencies in the Torah as signs of revision, this book identifies precursors for these phenomena in ancient Near Eastern writings. It claims that Enlightenment and German historicist influences corrupted critical study of the Bible, and calls for a return to the more modest agenda set out by Spinoza"--