Adam as Israel : Genesis 1-3 as the introduction to the Torah and Tanakh / Seth D. Postell.

By:

Postell, Seth D [author.]

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780227900239
0227900235

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Adam as Israel : Genesis 1-3 as the Introduction to the Torah and Tanakh.DDC classification:

222.1106 23

LOC classification:

BS1235.52 .P67 2012eb

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

Introduction -- History of interpretation -- Recent studies -- Methodology -- A text-centered analysis of Genesis 1-3, Part 1 -- A text-centered analysis of Genesis 1-3, Part 2 -- Genesis 1-3: An introduction to the Tanakh?

Summary: Postell contends that the opening chapters of the Bible, when interpreted as a strategic literary introduction to the Torah and to the Tanakh, intentionally foreshadows Israel's failure to keep the Sinai Covenant and their exile from the Promised Land, in order to point the reader to a future work of God. Postell highlights numerous intentional links between the story of Adam and the story of Israel and, in the process, explains numerous otherwise perplexing features of the Eden story.

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Originally published 2011.

Postell contends that the opening chapters of the Bible, when interpreted as a strategic literary introduction to the Torah and to the Tanakh, intentionally foreshadows Israel's failure to keep the Sinai Covenant and their exile from the Promised Land, in order to point the reader to a future work of God. Postell highlights numerous intentional links between the story of Adam and the story of Israel and, in the process, explains numerous otherwise perplexing features of the Eden story.