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Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus : Hellenistic histories and the date of the Pentateuch /
Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus proposes a provocative new theory regarding the date and circumstances of the composition of the Pentateuch. Gmirkin argues that the Hebrew Pentateuch was composed in its entirety about 273-272 BCE by Jewish scholars at Alexandria that later traditions credit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
T & T Clark,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ;
433. Copenhagen international seminar ; 15. T & T Clark library of biblical studies. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus proposes a provocative new theory regarding the date and circumstances of the composition of the Pentateuch. Gmirkin argues that the Hebrew Pentateuch was composed in its entirety about 273-272 BCE by Jewish scholars at Alexandria that later traditions credited with the Septuagint translation of the Pentateuch into Greek. The primary evidence is literary dependence of Gen. 1-11 on Berossus' Babyloniaca (278 BCE) and of the Exodus story on Manetho's Aegyptiaca (c. 285-280 BCE), and the geo-political data contained in the Table of Nations. A number of ind. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 332 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-309) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780567134394 0567134393 |