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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...

grew and developed into the final form of the book that we now have in the postexilic period.75 Rogerson helpfully summarizes the main points of de Wette’s Contributions. I will paraphrase them as follows: 1. Chronicles is late in composition; it reveals the religion of Israel in the postexilic period. 2. The Pentateuch as a whole is a late compilation. 3. The traditions recounted in the Pentateuch provide no reliable information about the empirical history and genesis of Israel in its presettlement
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