Introduction The book of Numbers is the fourth part of the Torah (or, in Greek, the Pentateuch). In the Mishnah and in the Talmud it is named Homesh ha-Pequdîm (i.e., the Fifth of the Mustered) because of the censuses recorded at the beginning of the book and in chapter 26...
Law, the Prophets and the Writings) in early10 and rabbinic Judaism must have had definite historical presuppositions in earlier times.11 The dominance of the law is often used as an argument for the proposition that the Pentateuch was the first segment of the Hebrew Scriptures to be ...
In particular, he shows how different textual layers and connections evince that scribes carefully negotiated priestly power and authority through key Pentateuchal portions. He opens the introduction with his driving question: “How did the high priesthood go from being an important, but subordinate,...
The symbolic figure of Noah was known in ancient Israel, before the compilation of the Pentateuch. Ezekiel (14:14, 20) speaks of him as a prototype of the righteous man who, alone among the Israelites, would be spared God’s vengeance. In the New Testament, Noah is mentioned in the ...
and for liturgical reasons it became necessary for the Jewishcommunitiesof the region to have theTorah, or Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible), translated into the common language from traditional Hebrew. The resulting Targums (from Aramaicmeturgeman,“translator”) survived after origin...
Since the second half of the 20th century, the focus in research has shifted away from both literary reconstruction and attempts to coordinate the sources of Judges with those of the Pentateuch and the former prophets. A number of studies focus on the organization and themes of Judges itself ...
It is not merely that in the matter of numbers the Hebrew text has not always reached us incorrupt (cf. the differences between the Hebrew, Septuagint, and Samaritan Pentateuchs), but the Books of Scripture, moreover, are not a mere history. Some of them, as the Psalms, are in no ...
Book Review: Old Testament Studies from Sheffield: A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar, Job, Zechariah, Revelation, Introduction to the Composition of the Pentateuch, Reading Law: The Rhetorical Shaping of the Pentateuch, the Search for Quotation: Verbal Parallels in the Prophets, Pivot Patterns ...
摘要: Typically, the Pauline and the General epistles may get more attention than the Gospels and Revelation. Occasionally, exposure to Old Testament texts might be limited to brief character studies drawn from the Pentateuch or the Deuteronomic history books....
Both the incident and the collection are impossible to date, however, and some critics believe that the whole story is actually intended to explain the composition of portions of the Pentateuch, including most or all of Deuteronomy. Evidently, however, the Pentateuch (or at least its first ...