Literary Criticism of the Old Testament

Norman C. Habel is Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Flinders University, Australia. David Rhoads is Professor of New Testament at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. H. Paul Santmire is Senior Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Akron, Ohio.

I. Introducing Literary Criticism The Discipline of Literary Criticism Examples of Literary Criticism II Discovering Literary Sources Isolating the Evidence of Genesis 1-5 Comparing the Evidence of Genesis 6-9 III Interpreting Literary Sources: The Yahweh and the Promise The Yahwist at Work: A Classic Passage The Need for the Promise The Patriarchs and the Promise Moses and the Promise IV Interpreting Literary Sources The Priestly Writer and the Covenant The Priestly Writer at Work The Abraham Covenant Initiated The Covenant Remembered in Egypt The Structuring of the Covenant Relationship at Sinai Glossary Annotated Bibliography