A prophet like Moses : prophecy, law, and Israelite religion

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Label

A prophet like Moses : prophecy, law, and Israelite religion

Title remainder

prophecy, law, and Israelite religion

Statement of responsibility

Jeffrey Stackert

Creator

• Stackert, Jeffrey, 1977-

Subject

• Bible, Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Jewish law -- Sources
• Jews -- History -- To 70 A.D
• Prophecy -- Judaism

Genre

• Sources

Language

eng

Summary

Jeffrey Stackert addresses two of the oldest and most persistent problems in biblical studies: the relationship between prophecy and law in the Hebrew Bible and the utility of the Documentary Hypothesis for understanding Israelite religion. These topics have in many ways dominated pentateuchal studies and the investigation of Israelite religion since the nineteenth century, culminating in Julius Wellhausen's influential Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel. Setting his inquiry against this backdrop while drawing on and extending recent developments in pentateuchal theory, Stackert tackles the subject through an investigation of the different presentations of Mosaic prophecy in the four Torah sources. His book shows that these texts contain a rich and longstanding debate over prophecy, its relation to law, and its place in Israelite religion. With this argument, A Prophet Like Moses demonstrates a new role for the Documentary Hypothesis in discussions of Israelite religion. -- Book Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

222/.11015

Index

index present

LC call number

BM645.P67

LC item number

S73 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography