His article "The Past as Destiny" will appear in the October issue of the Harvard Theological Review The Origins of the Hebrew Bible and Its ... books of Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy), for ...

In the following interview, Shaye Cohen, the Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature ... As you mentioned, the Bible says that Abraham is circumcised. Cohen: Yes. Genesis 17 is the chapter that ...

The term "testament," as applied to the two parts of the Bible, means ... was sealed by the circumcision (Genesis 17); the pact between God and the Jewish people, by the sprinkling of the people ...