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Author Brichto, Herbert Chanan

Title The Names of God : Poetic Readings in Biblical Beginnings
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (481 pages)
Contents CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ONE: THE NAMES OF GOD: THE PROBLEM: A PRELIMINARY REVIEW; A Meta-literary Address to the Problem: Source-Analysis; An Essentially Literary Address to the Problem: Cassuto; The Names of God in Nonnarrativc Texts and the "Evolution" of Biblical Monotheism; Excursus: On the Names of God in the Psalter; On the Evolution of Biblical Monotheism; On Terms for Divinity, Common and Proper; The names 'Elohim and YHWH; YHWH Introduces Himself by Name; The Patriarchs' Use of the Name YHWH; The Solution to the Problem: A (Literary) Hypothesis
TWO: THE CREATION STORY IN GENESIS, CH. I:I-2:4ATHREE: EDEN AND EDEN'S AFTERMATH; FOUR: THE FLOODS OF NOAH AND UTNAPISHTIM: THEOLOGY STRAIGHT AND THEOLOGY SATIRIC; FIVE: FROM NOAH TO ABRAM; SIX: EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM; SEVEN: STRUCTURES AS A BIBLICAL LITERARY PHENOMENON; SUPPLEMENTS, CONCLUSIONS, ANTICIPATIONS; EIGHT: POETICAL ODDS AND ADDENDS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
Summary This text is intended for scholars of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 458-459) and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Bible. Genesis -- Authorship
Bible. Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Genesis fast
Subject Authorship.
Authorship
authorship.
Authorship
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96010381
ISBN 9780195355130
019535513X
1280453168
9781280453168
0585353166
9780585353166