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The Relationship of Torah and Promise in the Redactionary Composition of the Pentateuch

The Relationship of Torah and Promise in the Redactionary Composition of the Pentateuch 99. THE RELATIONSHIP OF TORAH AND PROMISE IN THE REDACTIONARY COMPOSITION OF THE PENTATEUCH Horst Seebass . I Old Testament stories want to be made accessible from their purpose, from their ending. Although this may not hold as an iron-clad unchangeable law, it remains a good rule of experience which merits further notice. The Penta- teuch, which M. Noth taught to be seen predominantly as a story,l ends with a very eloquent, uplifting as well as pain- fully unfulfilled scene of the death of Moses outside the promised land. In striking contrast to the tomb of the patriarchs at Hebron (Gen 23), God Himself ordained for Moses a burial place outside the land included in the promise. With the great Moses, to whom is erected at the climax of the Pentateuch, namely in Deuteronomy and its promulga- tion of law, a definitive monument as the revealer,2 the original and fundamental document of what is about to become the Old Testament's canonical way of faith remains out of the promised land, and enters not into the fulfillment. How this ending, this purpose of the Pentateuch is to be assessed, proceeds from its analogy, hence from the ori- gin of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Horizons in Biblical Theology Brill

The Relationship of Torah and Promise in the Redactionary Composition of the Pentateuch

Seebass, Horst
Horizons in Biblical Theology , Volume 7 (1): 99 – Jan 1, 1985
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© 1985 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0195-9085
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10.1163/187122085X00051
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99. THE RELATIONSHIP OF TORAH AND PROMISE IN THE REDACTIONARY COMPOSITION OF THE PENTATEUCH Horst Seebass . I Old Testament stories want to be made accessible from their purpose, from their ending. Although this may not hold as an iron-clad unchangeable law, it remains a good rule of experience which merits further notice. The Penta- teuch, which M. Noth taught to be seen predominantly as a story,l ends with a very eloquent, uplifting as well as pain- fully unfulfilled scene of the death of Moses outside the promised land. In striking contrast to the tomb of the patriarchs at Hebron (Gen 23), God Himself ordained for Moses a burial place outside the land included in the promise. With the great Moses, to whom is erected at the climax of the Pentateuch, namely in Deuteronomy and its promulga- tion of law, a definitive monument as the revealer,2 the original and fundamental document of what is about to become the Old Testament's canonical way of faith remains out of the promised land, and enters not into the fulfillment. How this ending, this purpose of the Pentateuch is to be assessed, proceeds from its analogy, hence from the ori- gin of

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Published: Jan 1, 1985

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