The Pentateuch Interpreting Biblical Texts

includes index and biblioraphy

Part One Issues in reading the pentateuch Chapter 1 The study of the pentateuch ......19 Pentateuch, Torah and law .....19 The pentateuch as book of faith .....20 The study of the pentateuch ....22 The theological task .....36 Chapter 2 Aproposal for reading the pentateuch .....39 The implied reader/ Audience ....40 The sense of a beginning ....43 The sense of an ending .....53 The ending meets the beginning ......56 Deuteronomy as beginning .......58 Conclusion ....62 Part two Themes and strategies in the pentateuch Chapter 3 The book of Genesis .....67 Nature and origin ....67 The primeval story ....70 The story of Abraham .....84 The story of Jacob .....86 Joseph, Judah and jacon`s family ....87 Narrative themes .....88 Chapter 4 The book of Exodus .....101 Nature and origin ....101 Narrarive flow .....103 Narrative structure ....109 Narrative themes .....111 Chapter 5 The book of leviticus ....121 Nature and origin ...121 Law and creation .....125 The Sacrificial system ....127 Purity laws ...131 Law and holiness ....133 Law covenant and the ancestral promises .....135 Chapter 6 Th book of numbers .....137 Nature and origin ......137 Structure .........139 Key themes .....141 Chapter 7 The book of deuteronomy ....152 Nature and origin ....152 Structure .....155 Purpose .....160 Key themes ....162 Notes ....171 Selected bibliography ....176 Index ....181