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A Brief History of Old Testament Criticism: From Benedict Spinoza to Brevard Childs is unavailable, but you can change that!

Modern Old Testament interpretation arose in an intellectual environment marked by interest in specific historical contexts of the Bible, attention to its literary matters, and, most significantly, the suspension of belief. A vast array of scholars contributed to the large, developing complex of ideas and trends that now serves as the foundation of contemporary discussions on interpretation. In A...

of the Pentateuchal cultic system, as the postexilic religious community did. Why did they not know? Because they were not yet fully in existence. Here a crucial interpretive move is made, whose implications will be worked out more fully with Julius Wellhausen. The Pentateuch, along with the Torah and its cultic instructions, is, according to de Wette, actually the product of the monarchical period of Israel’s history. It was not antecedent to the time of Israel’s kings in their empirical history,
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