TY - BOOK AU - Blenkinsopp,Joseph TI - Treasures old and new: essays in the theology of the Pentateuch SN - 0802826792 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - BS1225.52 .B54 2004 U1 - 230/.0411 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Grand Rapids, Mich. PB - W.B. Eerdmans KW - Bible KW - Pentateuch KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-215) and indexes; Memory, tradition, and the construction of the past in ancient Israel -- Old Testament theology and the Jewish-Christian connection -- Creation, the body, and care for a damaged world -- Sacrifice and social maintenance in ancient Israel -- YHVH and other deities : conflict and accommodation in the religion of Israel -- Gilgamesh and Adam : wisdom through experience in Gilgamesh and in the biblical story of the man, the woman, and the snake -- Structure, theme, and motif in the succession history (2 Samuel 11-20; 1 Kings 1-2) and the history of human origins (Genesis 1-11) -- The Judge of all the earth (Genesis 18:22-33) -- Biographical patterns in biblical narrative : folklore and paradigm in the Jacob story -- What happened at Sinai? : structure and meaning in the Sinai-Horeb narrative (Exodus 19-34) -- Deuteronomy and the politics of postmortem existence -- We pay no heed to heavenly voices : the "end of prophecy" and the formation of the canon ER -