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Studying the Ancient Israelites: A Guide to Sources and Methods is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Old Testament was not written in a vacuum. It was written by and to a specific people who lived within specific social, historical, political, and literary contexts—contexts not only of their own culture but also of the surrounding peoples. Clearly, an understanding of ancient Israel and the ancient Near East is essential for proper interpretation of the Bible. Unfortunately, as students...

• affectant—a person affected by hearing or reading the record and able to draw a recognizable set of meanings from the received record • second sign—a second-level record of the event that has now been filtered through a secondary process of analysis based on the affectant’s understood range of meanings for the interpretant The recording and interpretation of history is therefore like the continually expanding ripples on a pond created by a pebble’s original impact with the water. It is a continuous,
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