The Yahwist : A Historian of Israelite Origins.

COVER front -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Abbreviations -- Part 1 -- An Outline of the Yahwist's Antiquities of Israel -- Introduction -- The Primeval History from Creation to the Tower of Babel -- The History of the Patriarchs -- The Sojourn in Egypt and the Exodus -- From the Red Sea to Sinai -- Israel at Sinai -- The Desert Journey from Sinai to Kadesh -- The Final Push: From Kadesh to the Jordan River -- Observations on J's Sources, Literary Techniques, and Ideological Perspective -- Part Two -- Studies in Defense of the Yahwist -- Is There Any Historiography in the Hebrew Bible? A Hebrew-Greek Comparison -- Author or Redactor? -- The Report of the Yahwist's Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated -- The Yahwist Flood Story and the Babylonian Flood Tradition -- The Covenant of Abraham in Genesis 15 -- The Silence of Dinah (Genesis 34) -- The Joseph Story: Some Basic Observations -- The Israelites in Egypt (Exodus 1-5) within the Larger Context of the Yahwist's History -- The Itinerary from Egypt to the Jordan River: A Study in J's Historiography -- The Altar Law of Exodus 20:24-26 in Critical Debate -- The Tent of Meeting in the Yahwist's Sinai-Wilderness Story: A Test Case -- Deuteronomy between Pentateuch and the Deuteronomistic History -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture -- _GoBack.

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