TY - BOOK AU - Van Seters,John TI - The Yahwist: A Historian of Israelite Origins SN - 9781575068640 AV - BS1181.4.V37 2013eb U1 - 222/.1066 PY - 2013/// CY - University Park, PA PB - Pennsylvania State University Press KW - Bible.-Pentateuch-History of Biblical events KW - Bible.-Pentateuch-Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - J document (Biblical criticism) KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - No detailed description available for "The Yahwist" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3155691 ER -