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Rethinking Genesis: The Sources and Authorship of the First Book of the Pentateuch is unavailable, but you can change that!

Rethinking Genesis is an assessment of the origins of the book of Genesis. Garrett looks at the various possible sources of information that Moses drew on in putting together his account of the origins of the earth and the appearance of the history of Israel. The documentary hypothesis has always been criticized from conservative theological circles. This has tended to be in the form of outright...

Shaddai is preceded by the ב essentiae,23 which implies that God filled the name with special significance for them when he made a covenant with them and promised the land of Canaan as their inheritance (v. 4). Now he is going to fill the name Yahweh with significance (‘And my name is Yahweh’) in the even greater deliverance of the exodus (v. 5). Even so, the text stresses the continuity between the revelation to the patriarchs and the revelation of the exodus rather than any discontinuity (‘Did
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