The Sin of Moses and the staff of God: A Narrative Approach

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

The Sin of Moses and the Staff of God: A Narrative Approach. By Johnson Lim Teng Kok. Studia Semitica Neerlandica. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1997, xv + 185 pp., $58.00 paper.

Kok's monograph (a revised M.Phil. thesis) adds another piece of artillery to the growing arsenal of attempts to provide unified literary readings of Biblical narratives as distinct and dissenting alternatives to the common fragmentation resulting from modern source and tradition-critical readings. His chapters cover recent developments in Pentateuchal studies, the literary approach to the Pentateuch, exegetical analysis and ...

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