George W. Coats

This short learned book orients around the overarching question of context for the Joseph story in Genesis. It focuses specifically on structural and theological context. Its goal is to illumine the unique position of the Joseph story in the Pentateuch, yet to explore whether the story has any firm rootage in Pentateuchal theology that would undergird its position.

This short learned book orients around the overarching question of context for the Joseph story in Genesis. It focuses specifically on structural and theological context. Its goal is to illumine the unique position of the Joseph story in the Pentateuch, yet to explore whether the story has any firm rootage in Pentateuchal theology that would undergird its position.

These essays from the doyen of Moses studies focus on issues primarily in Pentatuchal/Hexateuchal research. The volume, containing several papers previously unpublished, forms a companion volume to Coats's 'Moses: Heroic Man, Man of God'. Together the two volumes comprise the whole of Coats's unique and wide-ranging investigations of the figure of Moses.