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Egypt on the Pentateuch's Ideological Map

Egypt on the Pentateuch's Ideological Map

Greifenhagen, F. V.
Greifenhagen, Franz

Hardcover

Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, Book 361

Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0826462111
ISBN13: 9780826462114
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Apr 1 2003
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.70
Language: English

This book explores the references to Egypt in the Pentateuch--twice as dense as in the rest of the Hebrew Bible--in the context of the production of the text's final form during the Persian period. Here, as Greifenhagen shows, Egypt functions ideologically as the primary other over against which Israel's identity is constructed, while its role in Israel's formation appears as subsidiary and as a superseded stage in a master narrative which locates Israel's ethnic roots in Mesopotamia. But the presentation of this powerful neighbour is equivocal: a dominant anti-Egyptian stance coexists with alternative, though subordinate, pro-Egyptian views, suggesting that the Pentateuchal narrative was produced within a context of ideological conflict over attitudes towards a land that provided a home for Jewish fugitives and emigrants.

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