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S. David Sperling. The Original Torah: The Political Intent of the Bible's Writer. Reappraisals in Jewish Social and Intellectual History. New York: New York University Press, 1998. xiv, 185 pp.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 October 2009
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1. This view has been expressed by many previous scholars, including the reviewer Rendsburg, G. A., “Biblical Literature as Politics: The Case of Genesis,” in Religion and Politics in the Ancient Near East,ed. A. Berlin (Bethesda, Md.: University Press of Maryland, 1996), pp. 47–70.Google Scholar
2. For details, see Rendsburg, G. A., “The Early History of Israel,” in Crossing Boundaries and Linking Horizons: Studies in Honor of Michael C. Astour on His 80th Birthday,ed. G. D. Young, M. W. Chavalas, and R. E. Averbec (Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press, 1997), pp. 433–453.Google Scholar
3. On the former, see the many works of A. Hurvitz, most importantly A Linguistic Study of the Relationship Between the Priestly Source and the Book of Ezekiel(Paris: J. Gabalda, 1982); on the latter, see now Wright, R. M., “Linguistic Evidence for the Pre-Exilic Date of the Yahwist Source of the Pentateuch” (Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, 1998).Google Scholar
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