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The Pentateuch as Narrative: A Biblical-Theological Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Most scholars studying the first five books of the Bible either attempt to dissect it into various pre-pentateuchal documents or, at the very least, analyze Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy as separate, self-contained documents. The Pentateuch As Narrative focuses on the narrative and literary continuity of the Pentateuch as a whole. It seeks to disclose how the original...

on portraying God as the Creator of the universe. We should make special note that Moses began his history of God’s promises with an account of the creation of the universe and the beginning of world history. For Moses, the God of the Sinai covenant was the Creator of the universe and Lord of history. When first chosen by God to be the deliverer of his people, Moses had asked, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is
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