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Inconsistency in the Torah - Ancient Literary Convention and the Limits of Source Criticism (Hardcover)
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Inconsistency in the Torah - Ancient Literary Convention and the Limits of Source Criticism (Hardcover)
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Inconsistencies in the Torah is a critical intellectual history of
the theories of textual growth in biblical studies. The historical
critical approach to the Pentateuch has long relied upon scholarly
intuition concerning some of its narrative and legal discrepancies,
which scholars have taken as signs of fragmentation and competing
agendas. Those hypotheses are, Joshua A. Berman argues, based on
anachronistic, nineteenth-century understandings of ancient Near
Eastern and biblical law as statutory law. Indeed, the Pentateuch's
inconsistencies are not dissimilar to types of narrative
inconsistencies from Egyptian monumental inscriptions and the
historical prologues of the Hittite vassal treaty tradition. Berman
here explores the inconsistencies between the Pentateuch's four
corpora of law by surveying the history of legal theory and its
influence on the critical study of biblical law. He lays bare how
the intellectual movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries impeded the proper execution of historical critical
method in the study of the Pentateuch. Ultimately he advocates a
return to the hermeneutics of Spinoza and the adoption of a
methodologically modest agenda. This book is a must-read for
Biblicists looking to escape from the impasse and extreme
fragmentation gripping the field today.
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