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Exodus 19-40, by Rainer Albertz

Regular Price: $59.00 / Special Offer Price: $47.00

Publisher: TVZ – Theologischer Verlag Zürich
Series: Zürcher Bibelkommentare. Altes Testament, 2/2

Description: The second part of the book of Exodus (Ex 19-40) lays the foundations for Israel’s worship of God. On the one hand the commandments provided the liberated with God’s guidance in everyday life, while on the other the Tabernacle enabled them to encounter the divine liberator through worship. In his commentary, Rainer Albertz identifies the theological content in the book of Exodus by reconstructing the religious, legal and sacred political discourse, which for a long time guided its authors through the foundations of their relationship with God. He proposes a new model for the origins of the Pentateuch, while also taking into account the geographical and historical aspects of the Sinai and the tent sanctuary. (German text).

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Making the Biblical Text: Textual Studies in the Hebrew and the Greek Bible, edited by Innocent Himbaza

Regular Price: $82.00 / Special Offer Price: $65.00

Publisher: V&R Academic
Series: Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, 275

Description: Originating in a symposium organized by the Institut Dominique Barthélemy and held on 4-5 November 2011 at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, this book presents eight essays on the textual and literary history of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Bible. It is commonplace today to speak of multiple text types in the earliest text history of the Hebrew Bible. But how can this multiplicity be most adequately explained? Does it result from different places, or from different Jewish communities reading texts in parallel text forms (Jews in Jerusalem, Samaritans, Alexandrian Jews, etc.)? Does one have to reckon with different qualities and/or evaluations of certain text forms? In other words, among the different text types known to us, were there some which enjoyed special esteem and recognition in antiquity – and if yes, by whom?

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