The death of Jacob
Subtitle: narrative conventions in Genesis 47.28-50.26
By: by Kerry D. Lee, Jr
Series: Biblical interpretation series -- VOLUME 138
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9789004303027; 9789004303034
Subjects: Bible; Narrative Criticism; Biblical teaching
Description: Kerry Lee investigates the deathbed story of the patriarch Jacob and uncovers the presence of a variety of conventional structures underlying its composition, especially a conventional deathbed story or type scene also found in numerous other texts in the Hebrew Bible and non-canonical Jewish literature. Finding fault both with traditional diachronic approaches as well as more recent synchronic studies, Lee uses an eclectic but coherent blend of contemporary methods (drawn from narratology, linguistics, ritual theory, legal theory, assyriology, and other disciplines) to show that despite its probably composite pre-history the last three chapters of Genesis have been intentionally and artfully structured by the hand predominately responsible for their final form.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.