The Pentateuch

The Pentateuch, in the Core Biblical Studies series, introduces the
Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and
Deuteronomy. It combines a purely literary approach to reading the
final form of the Pentateuch with a historical reading of the text. The
literary approach emphasizes the structural role played by the
so-called toledoth (generations) formulae that trace the history of
humankind from Adam, through the ancestors of Israel, and finally to
Moses and Aaron as the founders o...