ORCID
James W. Watts: 0000-0002-4872-4986
Document Type
Article
Date
1997
Keywords
Pentateuch, Hebrew Bible, Hebrew law, rhetoric, authority, covenant
Language
English
Disciplines
Biblical Studies | Religion | Rhetoric and Composition
Description/Abstract
The Pentateuch develops God's character in stories of divine creation and destruction, promise and fulfillment, battle and redemption. The laws of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers supplement such direct characterization by the impressions provided by YHWH's speech. Speeches always indirectly characterize their speaker by providing the basis for inferring the kind of person who talks this way. So the law codes voiced directly by God provide a powerful impression of the divine character.
Recommended Citation
Watts, James W. "The Legal Characterization of God in the Pentateuch." Hebrew Union College Annual 67 (1997): 1-14.
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