Biblical Studies
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Issues in Biblical History
- Some notes on the historicity of the Bible, mostly from Thomas L. Thompson, The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel (Basic Books, London and New York, 1999). 'That the Bible alone offers no direct evidence about Israel’s past before the Hellenistic period is not because it is late and secondary— though surely that should give pause to the most conservative of historians— but because the Bible is doing something other than history with its stories about the past.'
- Margaret Barker, "Where
Shall Wisdom Be Found? (Job 28.12)". (Not clear what the original
publication data for this article is.) On the likelihood that the Deuteronomic
(Second Temple) strand represented so strongly in the Bible represented
a major shift in Hebrew religion, and that ideas from the First Temple (Solomon's)
persist in apocalyptic and in Orthodox Christianity.
