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Israel’s Earliest Historical Traditions

The ancestral narratives in Genesis 12–49 and the exodus account (Exod 1–19) fall into the category of foundational stories. This chapter traces the many pathways of cultural memory and the salient features that eventually grew into the completed narratives of the received biblical text. Thus the stories about each of the ancestors provide a genealogical framework for both the tribes as well as the nation of Israel. In turn, the connection between the ancestral narratives and the story of the people’s sojourn in Egypt leads up to a further clarification of God’s covenantal promise to Abraham and Moses.