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The Yahwist - A Historian of Israelite Origins (Hardcover)
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The Yahwist - A Historian of Israelite Origins (Hardcover)
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This book on the Yahwist comes at the end of a long career of
research on the Pentateuch in general and the Yahwist in
particular. Van Seters's interest in the Yahwist was stimulated by
the 1964 presidential address of the Society of Biblical
Literature, given by Professor Fredrick Winnett, "Rethinking the
Foundations," which focused on the Yahwist in Genesis. This
interest followed a path of work on issues surrounding the Yahwist
that culminated in three volumes, Prologue to History: The Yahwist
as Historian in Genesis (1992), The Life of Moses: The Yahwist as
Historian in Exodus-Numbers (1994), and A Law Book for the
Diaspora: Revision in the Study of the Covenant Code (2003). Over
the last few years, it has become clear to Van Seters that readers
of the three volumes on the Yahwist, which total more than 1,000
pages, easily lose sight of the Yahwist's work as a whole and the
way in which it provides a historical prologue and framework for D
and the DtrH. In this book, Van Seters seeks to provide a summary
sketch of the J history and to make clear how the Priestly corpus
has been composed as a supplement to the Yahwist with a radically
different form and point of view that has obscured the Yahwist's
historical narrative and theological perspective. Part one lays out
in simple terms the basic form, structure, and theological
perspective of the Yahwist's history, where it has been interrupted
by the inclusions of P, and how it is integrated into DtrH. The
essays in part two are intended to bring the scholarly discussion
of Van Seters's earlier books on the Yahwist more up to date, and
their order corresponds roughly to the order of the narrative in
the first part of the book. Some of these articles have been
published previously, but others are new and quite recent,
including "The Yahwist as Historian.
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