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Author Johnstone, William, 1936-

Title Chronicles and Exodus : an analogy and its application / William Johnstone
Published Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (331 pages)
Series Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 275
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 275.
Contents Abbreviations; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Part I: THE PROPOSAL: CHRONICLES AS GATEWAY TO PENTATEUCHAL CRITICISM; Chapter 2 CHRONICLES, CANONS AND CONTEXTS; Chapter 3 THE EXODUS AS PROCESS; Part II: LOOKING AT THE GATEWAY: CHRONICLES IN ITSELF AND IN ITS RELATION TO THE PENTATEUCH; Chapter 4 GUILT AND ATONEMENT: THE THEME OF 1 AND 2 CHRONICLES; Chapter 5 THE USE OF LEVITICUS IN CHRONICLES; Chapter 6 PROSPECTIVE ATONEMENT: THE USE OF EXODUS 30.11-16 IN 1 CHRONICLES 21; Part III: LOOKING THROUGH THE GATEWAY: APPLYING THE ANALOGY TO THE PENTATEUCH
Summary This collection of inter-related essays argues that the way in which Chronicles incorporates and develops material from Samuel-Kings offers an analogy for the way in which the final edition of Exodus was produced. Embedded within the text of Exodus there is an earlier Deuteronomistic version recoverable from the reminiscences of the exodus in Deuteronomy. This, it is suggested, is the most objective method available for recreating the literary history of Exodus and must constitute the first stage in any analysis of Exodus. Already, it produces some surprisingly radical results
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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SUBJECT Bible. Chronicles -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Exodus -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Chronicles fast
Bible. Exodus fast
Subject RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
Exodus (bijbelboek)
Kronieken (bijbelboeken)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567377395
0567377393