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History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 4: From the Enlightenment to the Twentieth Century is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume in History of Biblical Interpretation surveys the lives and works of significant theologians, lay people, politicians, and philosophers who represent the attitudes of their era. Largely concerning the development of biblical criticism, it begins with the controversy over the original Hebrew text of the Old Testament and extends into Enlightenment ethics, myth, and miracle stories....

cuneiform tablets written in the Babylonian language. Therefore, the Babylonian culture was known by the Canaanites at the time of Israel’s entrance into the land, and the immigrants soon adopted Canaanite culture (151) and thereby came indirectly under Babylonian influence. The acceptance of a lengthy tradition also bridged the chronological distance between such an early Israelite familiarity with Babylonian materials and the relatively late composition of the Priestly creation history: “In the
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