FROM THE TRANSLATOR'S FORWORD: Despite the passage of time, this little volume remains a classic in the filed of Biblical studies. Though summary in form and popular in presentation, it provides a masterly exposition of the Documentary Hypothesis and subjects its exegetical methods and conclusions to a critical probe. The writer challenges the widely-held theory that the Pentateuch is an amalgam of fragments excised from various source-documents of different authorship, date, style and outlook. . . The Documentary Hypothesis serves as a valuable introduction to the late Professor Cassuto's Hebrew Commentaries on the Pentateuch, which have helped so much to illumine our understanding of Scripture with the light of new knowledge and interpretation, expounded by one of the most original minds among modern Biblical exegetes.

The Documentary Hypothesis: and the Composition of the Pentateuch Eight Lectures

Religion & Spirituality

Cassuto, Umberto

Christian Books & Bibles

Varda Books

A major contribution to Ugaritic scholarship, this Cassuto's work on Canaanite Epics of the Patriarchal Age is a classic authored by one of the greatest Bible scholars. The Goddess Anath — text, translation, and commentary on the Canaanite Epic of the Patriarchal Age — sheds new light on many until now unexplained linguistic usages in the Bible. Among West Semites, Anath was considered to be the chief goddess of love and war, the sister and helpmate of the god Baal. She was a goddess with four differing aspects: mother, virgin, warrior, and wanton. Though a "mother" she was ever a "virgin". Her lust for blood, and or sex, was legendary: once, she slew all Baal's enemies at a feast. She was worshiped throughout Canaan, Syria, and Phoenicia. She was a popular goddess of war and fertility.

The Goddess Anath

Publisher\'s Row / Varda Books

This is the first in a series of comprehensive commentaries on the "Book of Genesis" that the late Professor Umberto Cassuto had planned as part of a magnum opus embracing the whole "Pentateuch" and also the "Book of Psalms". The aim of this commentary is to explain, with the help of an historico-philological method of interpretation, the simple meaning of the Biblical text, and to arrive, as nearly as possible, at the sense that the words of the Torah were intended to have for the reader at the time they were written.

From Adam to Noah: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis I-VI (Perry Foundation for Biblical Research)

Magnes Press, Hebrew University

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The Documentary Hypothesis: and the Composition of the Pentateuch Eight Lectures

The Goddess Anath

From Adam to Noah: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis I-VI (Perry Foundation for Biblical Research)