ORCID
0000-0002-4872-4986
Document Type
Article
Date
2018
Keywords
Pentateuch, God as king, enthymeme, rhetoric
Language
English
Disciplines
Religion
Description/Abstract
The Pentateuch portrays God acting like a king, but almost never applies the title, “king,” to God, in marked contrast to many other parts of the Hebrew Bible. This terminological discrepancy between, on the one hand, all the major pentateuchal sources and, on the other hand, much of the rest of the Hebrew Bible, calls for explanation. Attention to a common and ancient rhetorical strategy of argumentation, the enthymeme, provides an explanation in the form of an unstated premise. The premise that YHWH is Israel’s king strengthened the persuasive force of the prose Pentateuch by remaining unstated.
ISSN
1203–1542
Recommended Citation
James W. Watts, "The Unstated Premise of the Prose Pentateuch: YHWH is King" Journal of Hebrew Scriptures Vol. 18 Iss. 2 (2018)
Source
submission
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