Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0691121222 ISBN 13: 9780691121222
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Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0691121222 ISBN 13: 9780691121222
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
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Verlag: Princeton University Press. 10.07.2006., 2006
ISBN 10: 0691121222 ISBN 13: 9780691121222
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Zustand: USED_VERYGOOD. XIII, 278 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Chapter One -- JACOB AND THE BIBLE'S -- ANCIENT INTERPRETERS -- One question that troubled ancient readers of the Bible / (/ /was that of the purpose of the book of Genesis. This first book of the Torah (Pentateuch) was in some ways the most problematic. Those that followedExodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomyall contain divinely given laws, so their purpose was clear enough: they were written in order to guide people along the proper path in life. But Genesis has no laws or commandments to speak of; it is a collection of stories about Israel's ancient ancestors, starting with Adam and Eve and leading up to the founders of the Israelite nation, Jacob and his twelve sons. Now, history may be interesting, even important, but to a certain way of thinking, history per se does not deserve a place in the Torah. Why, then, was the book of Genesis included? -- Various answers were given to this question in ancient times. The author of the book of Jubilees (early second century B.C.E.), for example, understood Genesis to be a crypto-halakhic work; that is, although it has no overt laws per se, he maintained, its stories nonetheless contain legal teachings in hidden form, alluding here and there to divine commandments and practices that had been instituted with Israel's ancestors long before the great revelation of biblical law at Mount Sinai. Philo of Alexandria (ca. 20 B.C.E to ca. 30 C.E.), somewhat analogously, saw the various people whose lives are recounted in Genesis as walking embodiments of the laws that were to be given later on at Mount Sinai. ISBN 9780691121222 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 495 15,9 x 3,2 x 24,1 cm, Original Halbleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Half Cloth with dust jacket.