The Meaning of the Pentateuch
Revelation, Composition and Interpretation
John H. Sailhamer

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Sivuja: 632

Kustantaja: IVP Academic, 2009

ISBN-13: 9780830838677

ISBN-10: 0830838678

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The Pentateuch is the foundation for understanding the Old Testament and the Bible as a whole. Yet through the centuries it has been probed and dissected, weighed and examined, its text peeled back for its underlying history, its discourse analyzed and its words scrutinized. Could there be any stone in Sinai yet unturned?

Surprisingly, there is. From a career of study, John Sailhamer sums up his perspective on the Pentateuch by first settling the hermeneutical question of where we should set our attention. Rather than focus on the history behind the text, Sailhamer is convinced that it is the text itself that should be our primary focus. Along the way he demonstrates that this was in fact the focus of many interpreters in the precritical era.

Persuaded of the singular vision of the Pentateuch, Sailhamer searches out clues left by the author and the later editor of the Pentateuch that will disclose the meaning of this great work. By paying particular attention to the poetic seams in the text, he rediscovers a message that surprisingly brings us to the threshold of the New Testament gospel.

For years John Sailhamer has been pressing toward a comprehensive work on the Pentateuch... At last the magnum opus has appeared... Careful reading of the book will inevitably call for a reexamination of the issue of the Pentateuch's antiquity and its deliberate compositional strategy.

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John H. Sailhamer oli aiemmin Trinity Evangelical Divinity Schoolin (Illinois) Vanhan testamentin tutkimuksen ja seemiläisten kielten apulaisprofessori. Sittemmin hän työskenteli Vanhan testamentin tutkimuksen professorina (Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Kalifornia) kuolemaansa v. 2017 saakka.