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Treasures Old and New: Essays in the Theology of the Pentateuch is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Pentateuch is one anchor of the Western religious heritage, a rich source of theological and spiritual instruction that can be plumbed again and again. In Treasures Old and New, accomplished biblical scholar Joseph Blenkinsopp engages several interesting topics in dialogue with texts from the Pentateuch. In keeping with the view that the Pentateuch is far too multiplex to be encapsulated in...

the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you” (Exod 12:2). Signaling a break with the past and a new beginning by instituting a new calendar is a familiar phenomenon; witness the hejira of Islam in A.D. 622 and the founding of the French Republic on September 22, 1792, the first day of the first month of a new epoch—later called Vendémiaire. The account of the celebration of the Passover festival in Egypt is meant to mark the birth of the Jewish commonwealth and the beginning
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