What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?: What Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel (Biblia.com)

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For centuries, the Hebrew Bible has been the fountainhead of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Today, however, the entire biblical tradition, including its historical veracity, is being challenged. Leading this challenge is a group of scholars described as the “minimalist” or “revisionist” school of biblical studies, which charges that the Hebrew Bible is largely pious fiction, that its writers and...

But what is popular religion? A number of recent studies have approached the subject, but none in my opinion even offers a working definition. That would include works like Susan Ackerman’s “Under Every Green Tree”: Popular Religion in Sixth-Century Judah and Karel van der Toorn’s From Her Cradle to Her Grave: The Role of Religion in the Life of the Israelite and the Babylonian Woman.39 One way to define popular religion would be to look not only at the archaeological evidence, which may differ radically

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