Day in Mamre, Night in Sodom: Abraham and Lot in Genesis 18 and 19

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

ROBERT IGNATIUS LETELLIER, Day in Mamre, Night in Sodom: Abraham and Lot in Genesis 18 and 19 (Biblical Interpretation Series 10; Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 1995). Pp. xvi + 296. Nlg 135, $77.25.

Letellier's purpose in this study is to investigate the narrative unity of Genesis 18-19. The diverse episodes of this story "are interwoven to form a cohesive whole sustained by a detailed control of the structures of narrative art" (p. ix).

The volume is divided into four chapters. The introduction contains a brief survey of some recent developments in pentateuchal studies and of critical ...

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