The Theme of the Pentateuch </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Clines, David J. A.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">9:0</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">Great Britain</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>JSOT Press</publisher> <dateIssued>1978</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>152tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback</extent> <extent>22cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>This popular textbook regards the Pentateuch as a literary whole, with a single theme that binds it together. The overarching theme is the partial fulfilment of the promises to the patriarchs. Though the method of the book is holistic, the origin and growth of the theme is also explored using the methods of traditional source analysis. An important chapter explores the theological function of the Pentateuch both in the community for which the Pentateuch was first composed and in our own time....</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">David J. A. Clines</note> <subject> <topic>Bible - AT - Criticism, interpretation, etc</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Bible -- Pentateuch</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">222.106</classification> <classification authority="ddc">D249-C64</classification> <identifier type="isbn">0905774159</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11260/10.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11260/10.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordContentSource authority="marcorg"/> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071008.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>