I Have Built You an Exalted House: Temple Building in the Bible in Light of Mesopotamian and North-West Semitic Writings

by Victor Hurowitz

Publisher:

Sheffield Academic Press

, 1992

Overview

This close synchronic analysis of Exodus 1–2 looks at how the pericope's structure, language, focalization and management of information form its conception and judgment of its events and characters. A coherence of concerns is detectable in Exodus 1–2 with allusions to Genesis and the later chapters of Exodus. One chapter is assigned to each of seven narrative unities and deals in various ways with its narrative problems. The resulting eclectic choice of analytical tools includes the study of Proppian structural functions, repetition, public rhetoric, narrative speeds, order and symbolism.

Key Features

• Bibliography
• Indexes

Product Details

• Title: I Have Built You an Exalted House: Temple Building in the Bible in Light of Mesopotamian and North-West Semitic Writings
• Author: Victor Hurowitz
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Pages: 398

About Victor Hurowitz

Victor Hurowitz is a member of the Department of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Ben-Gurion University.

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