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Against the Gods: The Polemical Theology of the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Did the Old Testament writers borrow ideas from their pagan neighbors? And if they did, was it done uncritically? John Currid, a distinguished Old Testament scholar and archaeologist engages with this controversial question by carefully comparing the biblical text to other ancient Near Eastern documents. Well-researched and thoughtfully nuanced, Currid aims to outline the precise relationship...

Gunkel recognized this fact when he commented, “How incomparably superior the Hebrew legend is to the Babylonian!… And this also we may say, that the Babylonian legend strongly impresses us by its barbaric character, whereas the Hebrew legend is far nearer and more human to us.”2 Although I sharply disagree with Gunkel’s portrayal of Hebrew writing as legend, I affirm his statement of the unique Hebrew conception of the universe and its workings. Polemical theology is one way in which the biblical
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