Abraham in the Negev: A Source-Critical Investigation of Genesis 20: 1-22:19

From: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Date: September 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Abraham in the Negev: A Source-Critical Investigation of Genesis 20:1-22:19. By T. Desmond Alexander. Carlisle: Paternoster, 1997, ix + 172 pp., $14.99 paper.

By his publication of Abraham in the Negev, Alexander adds to his corpus of sourcecritical studies in the Abraham cycle, begun with his Ph.D. dissertation (Queens University, Belfast, 1982) and since followed by articles on portions of the Abraham narratives (e.g. sister-wife "doublets," Hagar-Ishmael "doublets"). In his dissertation Alexander argued that Genesis 12-25 were in effect the labor of one author (the Yahwist). His recent ...

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