The Pentateuch as Narrative: A Biblical-Theological Commentary by J. H. Sailhamer

Our runaway favorite. Compositional analysis by a premier evangelical scholar. Clearly the most ambitious attempt to trace the textual and thematic strategy of the whole Pentateuch as a carefully constructed book. Details how narrative, poetry, and legal material are woven into a single literary fabric. Shows that the Pentateuch displays a twofold theological strategy which (a) looks forward into the eschatological future to the coming of a savior-king who will defeat Israel’s enemies and restore the blessing God originally intended for all humankind “in the last days,” and (b) demonstrates the failure of the Sinai covenant and engenders a hope in the coming of a New Covenant. The Pentateuch therefore initiates a point of view shared by the rest of the OT books and the NT.

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