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Interpreting the Pentateuch: An Exegetical Handbook is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Interpreting the Pentateuch, Old Testament scholar Peter T. Vogt overviews the major themes of the Pentateuch and offers strategies for interpretation by exploring its genres: law and narrative. Providing two start-to-finish examples of proper exegesis, he shows that, although the Pentateuch is a collection of ancient texts, it still has contemporary significance.

consequently, our relationship to the law. We will be discussing this in some detail below. In light of the above considerations, I suggest the following guidelines for interpreting law. Identification of the context of the passage is a vital consideration in interpreting law. Both the social-historical context and the literary context (often referred to as co-text to distinguish it from the social-historical setting) must be identified.
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