Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Pentateuch – eBook

Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Pentateuch offers a clear overview of the "five books of Moses," as well as an introduction to the historical and textual questions that modern scholarship has posed and the answers it has proposed. In this volume from the Exploring the Bible Series, renowned Pentateuch expert and author Gordon J. Wenham offers students a critically informed, textually sensitive introduction to the Pentateuch that explores and explains:

the basic features of the Pentateuchthe social world of the Biblethe latest scholarship on the composition of the Pentateuchliterary techniques and formstheme, composition and rhetorical function of the Pentateuch

In this textbook, you will find double-column formatting for ease of use, annotated bibliographies for further reading, sidebar explorations of select historical and textual topics in greater detail, a glossary of terms, and relevant charts and maps.