by hadassah | Jul 2, 2008 | Critical Approaches to the Bible
Genesis 12-36 12 The Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.2) I will make of you a great nation, And I will bless you; I will make your name great, And you shall be a blessing.3) I will...
by hadassah | Jun 15, 2008 | Critical Approaches to the Bible
The Patriarchal Age: Myth or History? Kenneth A. Kitchen, Biblical Archaeology Review (21:02), Mar/Apr 1995. Over a century ago, the great would-be reconstructor of early Israelite history, Julius Wellhausen, claimed that “no historical knowledge” of the...
by hadassah | Jun 1, 2008 | Critical Approaches to the Bible
Jacob in History, Aharon Kempinski, Biblical Archaeology Review (14:01), Jan/Feb 1988 This is a story about Jacob, but it must be told the long way around. The reader must trust me to get there eventually. And I think the reader will find the route itself...
by hadassah | Jun 1, 2008 | Bible and Beyond, Critical Approaches to the Bible
The Separate Traditions of Abraham and Jacob, Roland de Vaux, Biblical Archaeology Review (6:04), Jul/Aug 1980 The historian’s difficulties increase the further back he goes into past. The most intractable problem is … that of the first ancestors whom Israel...
by hadassah | Apr 7, 2008 | Critical Approaches to the Bible
The Mists of Antiquity 2000-1000 BC, Teddy Kollek and Moshe Pearlman, Jerusalem: Sacred City of Mankind, Steimatzky Ltd., Jerusalem, 1991 The importance of Jerusalem sprang from the cultural geniuses of old, the Jewish philosopher-kings and biblical prophets,...
