The Descent from the Mountain
Subtitle: Narrative Patterns in Exodus 19-40 (JSOT Supplement)
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781841271774
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Books of the Old Testament; Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - Old Testament; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament; Bible - Stories - Old Testament; Religion; Religion - Commentaries / Reference
Description: "Hauge's 'close reading' of Exodus 19-40 focuses on the repetition of the 'encounter of the mountain'. This double encounter is expressed in a narrative structure of preparatory episodes climaxed by the theophany. The tension of the narrative is linked to 'the people' as the unlikely heroes of encounter and solved by the divine descent from the divine mountain to the man-made tent. The new situation of permanent encounter is foregrounded by the juxtaposed stories of pre- and post-Sinai journey, and the theme of the 'substitution of Moses' underlines a radical reinterpretation of traditional concepts, inviting the reader to embark on a process of identification."--Jacket.