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Herbert Chanan Brichto. The Names of God: Poetic Readings in Biblical Beginnings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xvii, 462 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2003

David Marcus
David Marcus
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Jewish Theological Seminary of America New York, New York
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Extract

This book, by the late professor of biblical studies at Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, is a companion volume to his Toward a Grammar of Biblical Poetics (Oxford, 1992), in which, by utilizing rhetorical or poetic techniques, he first made the case for the aesthetic wholeness of the Hebrew Bible. Whereas the first volume analyzed narrative texts relating to the prophets, in this volume Herbert Brichto devotes his literary analysis to the early Genesis narratives, including the Creation, Flood, and Abraham stories.

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AJS Review , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , October 2002 , pp. 349 - 350
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© 2002 by the Association for Jewish Studies

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