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The mythic past : biblical archaeology and the myth of Israel

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Part One: How stories talk about the past
1. History and origins: the changing past: When texts are confirmed by texts ; There is nothing new under the sun ; Stories of conflict ; The bible as survival literature
2. Confusing stories with historical evidence: Confusing naïve realism with historical method ; The Bible's many views of the past ; The stories of Yahweh as patron and his messiah ; Forgetting Saul's head on the battlefield ; How the Bible's collectors understood David ; Commenting on II Kings: Isaiah, Jonah and Elijah
3. How the Bible talks about the past : Stories and their references to an historical world ; Don't go back to Egypt for horses ; A story's access to reality ; Techniques in writing Genesis ; The biblical Israel as fiction
Myths of origins: The origins stories of humanity ; Of nations and heroes ; Of God's people ; A collapsing paradigm:

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221.9 THT

Publisher

New York : Basic Books., 1999

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xix, 412 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0465006221

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221.9

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Arqueologia bíblica Bible (Littérature) Bible -

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