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Ancient Near Eastern Themes in Biblical Theology traces the many parallels between the Old Testament (and Bible as a whole) and the ancient Near East, including creation and flood narratives, common literary and legal forms, supposed acts of deities and the God of the Bible, and more. Instead of merely studying a random selection of parallels, however, Jeffrey Niehaus proposes that they represent...

Only God’s way of “looking at the phenomena” is objectively true and perfect. But science does aim to understand truth, insofar as it seeks to understand God’s created order. Science has ways of establishing truth. One is the experimental method, which is generally taught in schools. Another is the comparative method, which descends from Aristotle. By this approach, the unknown is compared with the known. If parallels are found, the unknown can be understood and classified accordingly. Sir James
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