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Author Gaines, Jason M. H., author

Title The poetic priestly source / Jason M.H. Gaines
Published Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 525 pages .)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Philosophy and Religion
Contents Introduction -- 1. Identifying poetic features in Biblical texts -- 2. Differentiating poetic and prosaic texts -- 3. Poetic elements in priestly narrative -- 4. Poetic and prosaic strata in Genesis 6-9 -- 5. The priestly source in scholarship -- 6. Preliminary divisions between poetic and prosaic priestly strata -- 7. Conclusion
Summary Much of scholarly research on the Pentateuch has revolved around the question of sources and how they might be identified by differences in vocabulary, theme, and characterization. Jason M.H. Gaines brings a different perspective to the delineation of the Priestly source (P) by applying specific criteria for the identification of biblical Hebrew poetry. These criteria allow him to distinguish a nearly complete poetic P stratum ("Poetic P"), coherent in literary, narrative, and ideological terms, from a later prose redaction ("Prosaic P"), which is fragmentary, supplemental (filling out mundane details including names dates, ages, places, numbers, and so on), and distinct in thematic presentation and apparent theological concern. Gaines describes the whole of the "Poetic P" source and offers a Hebrew reconstruction of the document. He also outlines the different emphases of the two strata, including differences in the characterization of patriarchs and of God's treatment of a disobedient Israel. The result is a coherent and dramatically innovative understanding of the history of the Priestly composition that is sure to draw keen interest and to open up new vistas in the study of the Pentateuch
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Bible. Pentateuch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013789
Bible. Pentateuch fast
Subject Hebrew poetry, Biblical -- History and criticism
P document (Biblical criticism)
RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
Hebrew poetry, Biblical
P document (Biblical criticism)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781506400464
1506400469