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Should Genesis rightly be identified as law that is as torah or legal instruction for Israel Peterson argues in the affirmative concluding that Genesis serves a greater function than merely offering a prehistory or backstory for the people of Israel As the introductory book to the Torah Genesis must first and foremost be read as legal instruction for Israel And how exactly is that instruction presented Peterson posits that many of the Genesis accounts serve as case law The Genesis narratives depict what a number of key laws in the pentateuchal law codes look like in practice When Genesis is read through this lens the rhetorical strategy of the biblical author s becomes clear and the purpose for including specific narratives takes on new meaning In this creative and insightful study Brian Peterson demonstrates that Genesis is far than an account of Israel s prehistory It is fundamentally torah in which the narratives illustrate at a practical level key laws that follow in the Pentateuch This is aascinating read that will enhance understanding of the purpose of Genesis and proclamation of its theological significance Robert B Chisholm Jr. Book genesis as torah in english Chair and Senior Professor of Old Testament Studies Dallas Theological Seminary Peterson shows again in his newest study a mastery of the Old Testament His demonstration of the way Genesis narratives give real life instruction regarding Israel s life under covenant law is a significant step forward in biblical scholarship The intertextual connections between narrative and legal instruction confirm the coherence and holistic character of biblical revelation Kenneth Mathews Professor of Divinity Beeson Divinity School Brian Neil Peterson is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Lee University in Cleveland Tennessee His most recent books are Ezekiel in Context 2012 The Authors of the Deuteronomistic History 2014 John s Use of Ezekiel 2015 What Was the Sin of Sodom 2016 and Voice Word and Spirit coauthor 2017 Genesis as Torah Reading Narrative as Legal InstructionA timely reminder that trying to understand how Genesis functioned for the intended original audience is a good step before going on to seeing its fulfillment in Jesus however one defines that Full of interesting topics and plenty of OT text links can t remember the proper term for that 1532635842 Une bonne introduction au r le du livre de la Gen se dans le pentateuque 1532635842