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The Meaning of the Pentateuch: Revelation, Composition, and Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Pentateuch is the foundation for understanding the Old Testament and the Bible as a whole. From a career of study, John H. Sailhamer sums up his perspective on the Pentateuch by first settling the hermeneutical question of where we should set our attention. Sailhamer is convinced that the text itself should be our primary focus. He searches out clues left by the author and the later editor of...

check on our understanding of its big idea. We learn more about the Pentateuch as we reread it, and we can check our understanding of it by further rereading. This procedure is already anticipated in two of the major compositional seams of the OT, Joshua 1:8 and Psalm 1:2: the wise and understanding are those who “read” the Scriptures day and night. Here we ask whether our understanding of the Pentateuch’s big idea fits with what is actually in the text. And, does it fit well? Am I forcing my big
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