The perspective from Mt. Sinai
Subtitle: the book of Jubilees and Exodus
By: Betsy Halpern-Amaru
Series: Journal of ancient Judaism. Supplements -- volume 21; V&R Academic; Journal of ancient Judaism -- v. 21.; V & R academic
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Göttingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9783525550953; 9783647550954
Subjects: Bible; Rezeption; Exodus, The, in post-biblical literature; Biblical teaching; Relation to the Bible; Relation to the Old Testament; Criticism, interpretation; Book of Jubilees; Apocrypha; The Exodus
Other titles: Perspective from Mount Sinai :
Description: "Although termed 'the little Genesis', the Book of Jubilees is significantly engaged with Exodus. It reworks key Exodus narratives, develops modules of Exodus law, and highlights Exodus motifs. The approach of this study is a literary one that treats Jubilees as a unitary text that may reflect the work of a single author or of a final editor. The analysis draws particular attention to manipulations of temporal and textual perspective that transform Exodus narratives, facilitate the hermeneutical elaborations of Exodus law, and effect cohesion in the revelation that is the Book of Jubilees"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-169) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Setting and perspective; title: New transitions and new eras; title: Moses: a biography; title: Redemption revealed; title: Pesaḥ and Maṣṣot; title: The Pesaḥ statute; title: The sabbath and its law; title: Closures.