Author : Martin Sicker
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595514812
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Book Synopsis The Convocation at Sinai by : Martin Sicker
Download or read book The Convocation at Sinai written by Martin Sicker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biblical narrative of the revelatory events at Mount Sinai, and the covenant with God entered into by the children of Israel, deals with the critical formative event in the religious and cultural history of ancient Israel. However, the narrative also contains a number of enigmatic passages that have long troubled readers of Scripture. In this book, the author undertakes to unravel some of these enigmas and to show how they contribute to a fuller understanding of the narrative. The focus in The Convocation at Sinai is on what the biblical text is telling us, explicitly as well as implicitly, about the world in which the ancient Israelites became transformed from a mass of ethnically related people into a nation bound by a divine covenant, and the extraordinary role that the covenant between God and Israel played in the creation of the religious civilization known as Judaism. In the effort to comprehend and explain the highly complex biblical text, the author has consulted a wide range of commentaries and studies written over a period of some two millennia that have sought to understand the biblical texts from a wide variety of perspectives, many of which are presented for the reader's consideration, including many sources inaccessible to those without a working knowledge of Hebrew.