From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel

by Frank Moore Cross

Book Overview

Winner of the Centennial Book Award from the Tuttleman Family Foundation of Gratz College

In From Epic to Canon, Frank Moore Cross discusses specific issues that illuminate central questions about the Hebrew Bible and those who created and preserved it. He challenges the persistent attempt to read Protestant theological polemic against law into ancient Israel. Cross uncovers the continuities between the institutions of kinship and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801865336
• ISBN13: 9780801865336
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"