Daily Archives: May 4, 2011

Why Centralization?

In this post, I’ll talk a little about Jeffrey Tigay’s excellent Excursus 14 in his Jewish Publication Society commentary on Deuteronomy, “The Restriction of Sacrifice to a Single Sanctuary (Deuteronomy 12)”.  A while back (probably ten years ago), I did … Continue reading

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Starting Farewell to the Yahwist

I started A Farewell to the Yahwist?: The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation, which John Anderson recommended to me a while back.  In this post, I’ll blog about something from each of the essays. 1.  The “Introduction” … Continue reading

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