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Biblical History and Israel’s Past: The Changing Study of the Bible and History is unavailable, but you can change that!

Although scholars have studied ancient Israel for centuries, their purpose has for much of that time been primarily to illuminate and clarify the biblical story. In Biblical History and Israel’s Past Megan Bishop Moore and Brad E. Kelle describe how scholars have increasingly begun in recent years to tell the story of ancient Israel and its neighbors on its own terms, using both biblical and...

or by changing the ways in which histories are written, and the study of Israel’s past has moved beyond the minimalist-maximalist debate. Lester Grabbe’s Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? (2007), Victor Matthews’s Studying the Ancient Israelites: A Guide to Sources and Methods (2007), and Hans Barstad’s History and the Hebrew Bible (2008) are books that are, in effect, modern prolegomena to Israel’s history.30 Rather than write histories of Israel, Grabbe, Matthews, and Barstad
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