It is the claw marks that whisper of the ancient cat's contentment. It didn't just walk on the raw jar, which is absolutely a thing a cat would do. If it had just been strolling on the jug – first, cats have retractable claws in their front feet and do not stroll about with their front claws extended. There would not be any claw marks. Second, we wouldn't see the imprint of its foreleg.
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This volume collects thirteen essays by David M. Carr which join the study of the formation of the Pentateuch with research on other topics, from material history to animal studies. It begins with a detailed history of the last half-century of scholarship on the formation of the Pentateuch along with more general essays on the rationale for such study and on other methodological issues in Pentateuchal research. Two subsequent sections collect essays on intertextuality and on the material history of the five-scroll Pentateuchal collection. The volume concludes with essays linking such research with other areas, e.g. the question of the »author« in literary studies and questions about relations between humans and other animals in animal studies. Each chapter is prefaced with an introduction providing background on the context and problems addressed in the essay.
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Reinhard Gregor Kratz addresses the question of the role the Torah played in the Maccabean revolt against Antiochos IV in the second century BCE and how the Law of Moses relates to the »ancestral laws« mentioned in Seleucid and Jewish sources.
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