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...

true, no social science—the study of cultural phenomena that reflect patterned human thought and behavior—would be possible. Other revisionist absurdities are Thompson’s statement that “all peoples writ large for purposes fictional”; and Lemche’s assertion that “The Canaanites of the ancient Near East did not know that they were themselves Canaanites.”23 Other biblicists are less doctrinaire, like some of the contributors to the volume edited by Mark G. Brett, Ethnicity and the Bible. Yet Brett himself

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