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The Poetic Priestly Source

  • ISBN-13: 9781451494365
  • Publisher: AUGSBURG FORTRESS PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Jason M. H. Gaines
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  • Local release date: 15/12/2015
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 546 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Biblical studies & exegesis [HRCG]
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Much of scholarly research on the Pentateuch has revolved around the question of sources and how they might be identified by differences in vocabulary, theme, and characterization. Jason M. H. Gaines brings a different perspective to the delineation of the Priestly source (P) by applying specific criteria for the identification of biblical Hebrew poetry. These criteria allow him to distinguish a nearly complete poetic P stratum ("Poetic P"), coherent in literary, narrative, and ideological terms, from a later prose redaction ("Prosaic P"), which is fragmentary, supplemental (filling out mundane details including names dates, ages, places, numbers, and so on), and distinct in thematic presentation and apparent theological concern. Gaines describes the whole of the "Poetic P" source and offers a Hebrew reconstruction of the document. He also outlines the different emphases of the two strata, including differences in the characterization of patriarchs and of God's treatment of a disobedient Israel.The result is a coherent and dramatically innovative understanding of the history of the Priestly composition that is sure to draw keen interest and to open up new vistas in the study of the Pentateuch.
Jason M. H. Gaines is affiliate faculty in the department of religious studies at Fairfield University, Connecticut, and has previously taught at College of the Holy Cross and in the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College. He received his PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic studies from Brandeis University.
Introduction; 1. Identifying Poetic Features in Biblical Texts; 2. Differentiating Poetic and Prosaic Texts; 3. Poetic Elements in Priestly Narrative; 4. Poetic and Prosaic Strata in Genesis 6-9; 5. The Priestly Source in Scholarship; 6. Preliminary Divisions between Poetic and Prosaic Priestly Strata; 7. Conclusion; Appendix 1: The Nine Primary Poetic Features; Bibliography.
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