title: Structure, genre, and rhetoric of the Enneateuch
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metadata.value: Frolov, Sergey
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metadata.value: 2017-09-20T15:21:48Z
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metadata.value: 2017-09-20T15:21:48Z
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metadata.value: 2017-09
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metadata.value: Frolov Serge. Structure, genre, and rhetoric of the Enneateuch. Vestnik SPbSU. Philosophy and Conflict studies, 2017, vol. 33, issue 3, pp. 354–363.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu17.2017.311
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/7182
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metadata.value: The article seeks to fill a major lacuna in modern biblical scholarship. Although the studies of the
  last four decades (since the late 1970s) have done much to explore the literary properties of the
  Hebrew Bible, the exegetes tend to focus upon relatively limited pieces of text — a few chapters, a
  book at most — and hardly ever take a look at the larger literary entities to which these texts belong.
  A glaring example, considered in the present article, is Genesis-Kings. The author demonstrates that
  despite being divided into several books (nine in the Jewish tradition, hence the modern scholarly
  term Enneateuch; twelve in Christian) Genesis-Kings is an integral and self-contained composition,
  held together by a continuous and reasonably coherent plot as well as by stylistic homogeneity: all
  of its parts are dominated by narrative, to which all other literary formats are subordinated. This
  composition was, in the author’s opinion, created in Babylonian exile. The article further shows that
  the Enneateuch displays a harmonious, symmetric overall structure resembling that of ancient Near
  Eastern treaties between suzerains and vassals. The rhetorical purpose of this structure is, first, to
  foreground the sections that contain commandments (from Exodus 20 through Deuteronomy), and
  second, to convince the readers of the necessity to follow them. Thus, although the biblical books that
  constitute the Enneateuch are usually termed “historical,” for its creators recounting the past was just
  a means of ensuring observance in the present and thus preserving the community of exiles from
  assimilation. Refs 23.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 33; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Hebrew Bible
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Enneateuch
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Genesis-Kings
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: genre
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: rhetoric
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: literary structure
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Structure, genre, and rhetoric of the Enneateuch
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metadata.value: Article
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