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Dating Deuteronomy: The Wellhausen Fallacy is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Torah was recognized as a unit before the separation between the kingdoms of Judah and Israel. This book challenges established biblical scholarship derived from two assumptions of the Wellhausen Fallacy: a) Deuteronomy could not have been written before the time of Josiah (650 BCE); b) The existence of a group of redactors in the fifth century BCE or later. The first premise is based on the...

Archaeological Evidence Will Rarely Prove or Disprove a Biblical Report Rarely will archaeological evidence prove or disprove a biblical report. It may, however, be relevant when evaluating its credibility. The data are equivocal and open to different interpretations. Thus, Egyptian sources reporting the settlement of Semitic nomads (“Asiatics”) in the Nile Delta and their work as forced laborers support but do not prove the biblical account of the sojourn in Egypt. The sudden increase of settlements