Abram as Israel, Israel as Abram: Literary Analogy as Macro-Structural Strategy in the Torah

The argument is made that through the use of literary devices, the individual stories of the Abram narrative (Genesis 11–15) were strategically arranged to correspond with Israel’s story as told in the Book of Exodus. Although previous commentators have observed some parallels between these two stor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seth D. Postell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tyndale House, Cambridge 2016-11-01
Series:Tyndale Bulletin
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.53751/001c.29415