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Oracular Law and Priestly Historiography in the Torah

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
  • 15.6 x 23.2 x 1.9 cm

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Simeon Chavel identifies a distinct story-type in the Torah, the oracular novella, its contours and poetics, historical background, and use. A very short story of human quandary resolved by divine law, the oracular novella depicts an incident or set of circumstances in Israel, oracular inquiry by Moses, and instruction by Yahweh. The Torah has four such stories, all in the Priestly source, about cursing Yahweh (Lev 24:10-23), Pesa? deferral (Num 9:1-14), woodgathering on the Sabbath (Num 15:32-36), and inheritance by daughters (Num 27:1-11). All four dramatize themes in the divine speeches and divinely directed activities preceding them. But each utilizes the legal climax distinctly, has a separate compositional history, and affected other biblical texts differently. Ancient sources show the oracular novellas to adapt a form of priestly activity for historiography. Together they illuminate the Priestly History deeply troping divine will as law, and highlight Judean priests cherishing oracular inquiry as the nexus of divine and human society.

  • Title

    Oracular Law and Priestly Historiography in the Torah

  • Author

    Simeon Chavel

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Mohr Siebeck

  • Published

    November 2014

  • Weight

    552g

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.2 x 1.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9783161533419

  • ISBN-10

    3161533410

  • Eden Code

    4894601

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