Myth and History in the Bible (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement S.) - Hardcover

Garbini, Giovanni

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082646260X ISBN 13: 9780826462602

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group - Sheffie, 2003

Synopsis

The Old Testament, and biblical scholarship itself, distinguishes between mythical and historical. This book argues that only historical thing in the Bible is the Bible itself, a superb product of Jewish thought. What is narrated in the Bible is only myth. But this myth about Israel's past was still built with fragments of history, or rather with written traditions that were different from those expressed in the actual text, and obviously more ancient. These essays follow in the spirit of his controversial History and Ideology in Ancient Israel, which combine detailed philological reseaerch, a wide knowledge of ancient Near Eastern literature and Biblical Archaeology--and a radical way of understanding what the biblical text is really telling us. This is an erudite and thought-provoking book, which should not be ignored by anyone who finds the origin of the Bible a fascinating and still largely unknown phenomenon.

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About the Author:

Giovanni Garbini is Lecturer of Semitic Philology at the University Di Roma ""La Sapienza.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group - Sheffie
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 082646260X
• ISBN 13: 9780826462602
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192