1 vvv THE CURRENT STATE OF OLD TESTAMENT HISTORIOGRAPHY According to the modern consensus in the field, the volume you are holding in your hands is a book that should, according to modern standards, never have seen the light of day. For example, J. Maxwell Miller, writing in 1994, summarized his view about the possibility of writing or conducting a study of the history of Israel: “In view of the wide range of approaches and views, … it is impossible to present a reconstruction of the history of Israel
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