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TORAH. It is no exaggeration to claim that the term torah is the quintessential symbol in Judaism. The present essay approaches this symbol from a variety of linguistic, historical, and phenomen...
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The Torah
The five books that comprise the Torah, the first section of the Hebrew Bible, are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Also called the Humash, “the Five-fold, ...
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In the following essay, Green focuses on the first eleven chapters of Exodus to claim, contrary to many other critics, that there is no convincing evidence for the hypothesis that the Pentateuch was c...
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In this essay, Breuer asserts that the Torah was directly written by God and that its different styles reflect different qualities of God.
The topic assigned to me implies a possible contradiction bet...
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In the following essay, Crusemann explores the social and political context in which the Pentateuch was produced in an effort to understand the development of the Judeo-Christian Torah. According to h...
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In this essay, Suelzer examines the themes that structure what he takes to be an essentially unified Torah.
Introduction
The partition of the Pentateuch into the individual books of Moses was a practi...
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In the following essay, Habel dissects the literary structure and style of the Yahwist in order to recognize the writer's characteristic way of interpreting Israel's past.
As a literary ...
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In this essay, Friedman claims that the Priestly redaction of the Torah—the combination of the Priestly source with the Elohist-Jahvist document—significantly shaped the Pentateuch...
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In the following excerpt, Bamberger explores the role of the Torah in forming the Jewish community.
The Torah was always the possession of all Israel. It was addressed to the entire people, who were t...
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In the essay that follows, Knight examines the literary structure and intentions of the author(s) of the Torah through a critical survey of Pentateuchal scholarship.
It would be difficult to overestim...
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In the essay that follows, Baroody and Gentrup examine the literary structure of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy in order to establish the complex interrelationship between their narrative...
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In this essay, Eskenazi surveys the literary approaches to the Torah that have recently emerged in an effort to understand how they provide for a fuller religious and historical appreciation of the te...
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In this essay, Petersen examines the compositional history of the Pentateuch and its effect on interpreting the literary and historical unity of the text.
The title of this essay betrays one way of th...
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The Torah contains many different legal codes, a distinction and comparison between them enlightens us to the fact that the same persons did not write them and that the different authors did not have ...
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Torah
The Torah
Critical Essay by William H. Green
Legal Codes in the Torah
