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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...

In figure i.1 the Pentateuch is shown as a part of the covenant that God established with Israel at Mount Sinai. In that covenant God gave his laws to Moses, who passed them on to the Israelites standing at the foot of the mountain. Thus, in that view of the Pentateuch, God made a covenant with Israel at Mount Sinai, and it was to teach the Sinai covenant and the law that Moses wrote the Pentateuch. This picture represents a common misunderstanding of the purpose of the Pentateuch. What’s wrong with
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