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S. David Sperling. The Original Torah: The Political Intent of the Bible's Writer. Reappraisals in Jewish Social and Intellectual History. New York: New York University Press, 1998. xiv, 185 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2009

Gary A. Rendsburg
Gary A. Rendsburg
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Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
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AJS Review , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , November 1999 , pp. 359 - 362
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Copyright © Association for Jewish Studies 1999

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1. This view has been expressed by many previous scholars, including the reviewer Rendsburg, G. A., “Biblical Literature as Politics: The Case of Genesis,” in Religion and Politics in the Ancient Near East,ed. A. Berlin (Bethesda, Md.: University Press of Maryland, 1996), pp. 47–70.Google Scholar

2. For details, see Rendsburg, G. A., “The Early History of Israel,” in Crossing Boundaries and Linking Horizons: Studies in Honor of Michael C. Astour on His 80th Birthday,ed. G. D. Young, M. W. Chavalas, and R. E. Averbec (Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press, 1997), pp. 433–453.Google Scholar

3. On the former, see the many works of A. Hurvitz, most importantly A Linguistic Study of the Relationship Between the Priestly Source and the Book of Ezekiel(Paris: J. Gabalda, 1982); on the latter, see now Wright, R. M., “Linguistic Evidence for the Pre-Exilic Date of the Yahwist Source of the Pentateuch” (Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, 1998).Google Scholar

4. Ranke, H., Die Egyptischen Personennamen, vol. 1 (Glyckstadt: J. J. Augustin, 1935), p. 133.Google Scholar

5. Vogelsang-Eastwood, G., Pharaonic Egyptian Clothing (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993), p. 10 (emphasis added).Google Scholar