Oracular law and priestly historiography in the Torah /

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Author / Creator:	Chavel, Simeon, author.
Imprint:	Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, 2014. ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (364 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe, 1611-4914 ; 71 Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe ; 71.
Subject:	Bible. -- Pentateuch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- Pentateuch -- Criticism, Narrative. Bible. -- Pentateuch -- Criticism, Textual. Bible. -- Pentateuch -- Language, style.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10885102
Related Items:	Print version: Oracular law and priestly historiography in the Torah.

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ISBN:	9783161533426 3161533429 9783161533419
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	In this study, Simeon Chavel establishes the existence of a distinct type of story within the Torah, the ""oracular novella, "" traces its contours and poetics, identifies its historical background, and analyzes its use. The oracular novella is a very short story with a legal climax, in which divine adjudication and legislation resolves human complication. In a spartan style, the narrative recounts how an incident or set of circumstances in Israel led through oracular inquiry of Moses to legal resolution by Yahweh. The Torah contains four oracular novellas, all in the Priestly History, two acti.
Other form:	Print version: Chavel, Simeon. Oracular law and priestly historiography in the Torah. Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, ©2014 x, 353 pages Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe ; 71 9783161533419

Table of Contents:

""Cover""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Four Oracular Novellas""; ""Novella I. Lev 24:10 â€? 23""; ""1. The Identity of the Criminal""; ""2. The Crime""; ""3. The Laws of Bloodshed and Disfigurement""; ""4. The Story""; ""5. The Oracular Novella and the Holiness Code""; ""Novella II. Num 9:1 â€? 14""; ""1. The Composition of the Three Segments of the Narrative""; ""2. The Location of the Oracular Novella""; ""3. The Literary Background of the Oracular Novella""; ""a) The influence of Exodus 12 and the rest of the Priestly History""
""B) Points of contact with Deuteronomy 16 and Deuteronomistic Literature""""4. The Historical Background of the Deferred Pesaá?¥""; ""Novella III. Num 15:32 â€? 36""; ""1. The Form of the Oracular Novella and Other Priestly Texts about the Sabbath""; ""2. The Relationship with the Oracular Novella in Lev 24:10 â€? 23""; ""3. The Relationship with the Texts of Numbers 15""; ""Novella IV. Num 27:1 â€? 11""; ""1. Source-Critical Analysis""; ""2. The Original Novella in Num 27:1 â€? 7a, 11b""; ""3. The Original Novella and Related Texts: Num 26:29 â€? 34 and Josh 17:1 â€? 6""
""4. The List of Inheritors in Num 27:8b â€? 11a""""5. The Complete Novella""; ""6. The Complete Novella and Related Texts""; ""a) Num 36:1 â€? 12""; ""b) Ruth ""; ""Summary and Conclusions: Oracular Novellas and Priestly Historiography""; ""1. Review""; ""2. The Oracular Novellas and the History of the Priestly History""; ""3. The Form of the Oracular Novellas and the Priestly History""; ""4. Law and Narrative""; ""Bibliography: List of Abbreviations""; ""Indices""; ""1. Source Index""; ""I. Biblical Versions, Ancient Translations, and Rabbinic Comments""
""II. Ancient Literature and Documents""""III. Medieval Commentaries and Modern Scholarship""; ""2. Subject Index""; ""I. Critical Theory""; ""II. Literary Motifs and Legal Topoi""; ""III. Oracular Novella""; ""IV. Rhetorical Devices ""

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