Introduzione alla lettura del Pentateuco: Chiavi per l'interpretazione dei primi cinque libri della Bibbia

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

JEAN LOUIS SKA, Introduzione alla lettura del Pentateuco: Chiavi per 11interpretazione dei primi cinque libri della Bibbia (Collana biblica; Rome: Edizioni dehoniane, 1998). Pp. 315. Paper Lit 32.000.

Ska's aim is to provide Italian-language readers with an orientation to the overwhelming cacophony that pentateuchal scholarship has become in the last quarter century. As one who has taught the Pentateuch at the Biblicum for many years and authored numerous publications concerning it, S. is singularly well equipped for such a task.

His presentation unfolds in ten chapters. The first two of ...

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