[Rezension von: Dever, William G., 1933-, Has archaeology buried the bible?]
A distinguished archaeologist who already has a long list of popular as well as scholarly books to his name tackles once more the perennial question of the historicity of the Bible, underlining that this book is ‘meant to be truly popular’. It is evidently aimed at an American Bible-reading public....
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 878-880 |
| Review of: | Has archaeology buried the bible? (Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2020) (Houston, Walter)
Has archaeology buried the bible? (Grand Rapids : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2020) (Houston, Walter) |
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| Summary: | A distinguished archaeologist who already has a long list of popular as well as scholarly books to his name tackles once more the perennial question of the historicity of the Bible, underlining that this book is ‘meant to be truly popular’. It is evidently aimed at an American Bible-reading public. While Dever is clear about the unhistoricity of many parts of the biblical narrative, there is a strong element of apologetic in the book, in which he attempts to sketch the religious and moral value even of parts of the story which have low credibility as history. The book is concerned only with the Old Testament narrative, and then only up to the fall of Jerusalem. Dever considers that at that point ‘the six-hundred-year history of Israel and Judah comes to an end’, and, following R. E. Friedman, that ‘Yahweh simply disappears [Dever’s italics] . . . His word, spoken through the earlier prophets, falls silent’ (p. 103). A strange opinion in view of such important prophetic collections as those of Ezekiel, Isaiah 40-55, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flab090 |