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The Problem of the Hexateuch and Other Essays is unavailable, but you can change that!

First published in 1966, and long unavailable, this volume collects Gerhard von Rad’s most influential articles. Investigate the theological significance of the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant. Reconstruct the development of the Hexateuch with von Rad’s classic, form-critical study. In addition to the title work, this volume includes essays such as “The Theological Problem of the Old...

The speaker divests himself of all his personal concerns and aligns himself fully with the community. Indeed, he identifies himself with the community: at this moment, as he pronounces its confession of faith, he is its mouthpiece. Deut. 26:5ff. is a creed with all the characteristics and attributes of a creed, and is probably the earliest recognisable example. There must therefore have been a cultic occasion for the recital by the individual of this short confessional statement of God’s redemptive
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