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Behind the Scenes of the Old Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts is unavailable, but you can change that!

This authoritative volume brings together a team of world-class scholars to cover the full range of Old Testament backgrounds studies in a concise, up-to-date, and comprehensive manner. With expertise in various subdisciplines of Old Testament backgrounds, the authors illuminate the cultural, social, and historical contexts of the world behind the Old Testament. They introduce readers to a wide...

biblical literature. At the same time, there are numerous challenges to integrating biblical and ancient Near Eastern sources. One well-remembered moment in the history of scholarship that has served as a catalyst for discussions regarding the relationship between Near Eastern and biblical literatures is a suite of three lectures given by Professor Friedrich Delitzsch to the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (German Oriental Society) in 1902. In these lectures, Delitzsch provoked what has come to be known
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