Wilderness Narratives in the Hebrew Bible - Religion, Politics, and Biblical Interpretation

"Angela Erisman offers a new way to think about the Pentateuch/Torah and its relationship to history in this book. She explores creative transformations of genre and offers groundbreaking readings of key episodes in the wilderness narratives. She provides new insights about the nature of the exodus, the identity of Moses, and his death"--

List of contents

1. The journey begins: the sea; 2. Literature as politics: the exodus; 3. Your God reigns: the wilderness; 4. The sense of an ending: the land; 5. The rhetoric of fear: the priests; 6. Trusted in my household: Moses; Epilogue; Index.

About the author

Angela Roskop Erisman is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and author of The Wilderness Itineraries: Genre, Geography, and the Growth of Torah (1727), which won the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2014.

Product details

• Authors: Angela Roskop Erisman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2025
• EAN: 9781108499750
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49975-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Israel, BIBLES / General, RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings, Relating to Jewish people and groups, BCE to c 500 CE, c 500 BCE to c 1BCE, Judaism: Sacred Texts, Old Testaments, Jewish texts: Tanakh, Torah, Nevi’im, Ketuvim