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The book of the Torah: the narrative integrity of the Pentateuch

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The first five books of the Bible contain many of its most famous stories, populated by vivid characters altogether human in their triumphs and failings-and an equally complicated deity. Many works of Western art and literature appeal to these stories, from Michelangelo's painting of Adam and Eve to a novel like William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses. The three great Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) are rooted here. So is much of Western political theory and constitutional polity, for a good half of these books contains legislation (torah) of various kinds..

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222.106 MAN b

Z. HANDIMAN

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222.106 MAN b

Publisher

Atlanta : John Knox Press., 1988

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180p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

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0-8042-0085-8

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222.106

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PENTATEUCH (TORAH) - EXEGESIS

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