The promise of the land : the inheritance of the land of Canaan by the Israelites
- Responsibility
- Moshe Weinfeld.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993.
- Physical description
- xxi, 327 p. ; 21 cm.
- Series
- Taubman lectures in Jewish studies
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Weinfeld, Moshe.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Publisher's summary
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The settlement of the Land of Canaan by the Israelite tribes is a central theme in the Bible which is immensely relevant to the Middle East today. Moshe Weinfeld synthesizes the biblical material on this theme, approaching his subject from three viewpoints: historical, using the Bible as a source; literary-comparatist, comparing Patriarchal stories of settlement with Greek and Roman foundation myths; and exegetical, explaining that in Judaism land is a gift from God. He emphasizs the ethical weight of God's Promise of the Land and how failure to achieve it was seen as a reflection of sin and lack of faith, thus illustrating the importance of biblical tradition to one of the most troubled issues of modern history.
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Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 1993
- Series
- The Taubman lectures in Jewish studies
- ISBN
- 0520075102
- 9780520075108
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