From a career of study, John Sailhamer sums up his perspective on the Pentateuch by first settling the hermeneutical question of where we shoudl set our attention. Rather than focus on the history behind the text, Sailhamer is convinced that it is the text itself that should be our primary focus. Along the way he demonstrates that this was in the fact the focus of many interpreters in the precritical era. Persuaded of the singular vision of the Pentateuch, Sailhamer searches out clues left by the author and the later editor of the Pentateuch that will disclose the meaning of this great work.

632 pages, Paperback