Three times a year: studies on festival legislation in the pentateuch
Auteur :
Gesundheit, Shimon
Éditeur :
Mohr Siebeck
ISBN :
9783161509803
Date de publication :
20 juin 2012
Dimensions :
23,7 x 16,0 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
587 g
Format :
Cloth
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Allemagne
Shimon Gesundheit shows that - in contrast to classical historical reconstructions - the festival calendars in the Pentateuch do not reflect cultic or social realities of actual historical periods. Rather, they represent a process of progressive literary development shaping and promoting new ideas by textual revision and redaction.