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By Matthew C. Genung

Genesis 37 is the exposition of the biblical Joseph tale and narrates the foundation of Israel's descent into Egypt. From the start of severe examine into the Pentateuch, literary tensions and contradictions encountered during this bankruptcy, together with the query of who offered Joseph to whom, have given upward push to numerous incompatible reasons. at the moment no way to its advanced difficulties enjoys contract. On best of an intensive background of study, Matthew C. Genung presents a clean literary severe research of Genesis 37, handled passage via passage, guided by way of the literary tensions within the narrative in discussion with an important resolution types. this technique has ended in a brand new rationalization of the compositional background of Genesis 37 that contributes to an figuring out of the that means of the particular textual content, solves its parts of hysteria and incoherence, and identifies their originating historic milieu. the consequences effect Joseph tale exegesis and basic questions present in Pentateuchal criticism.

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