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By Stuart West

The ebook seeks to explain the origins of the Hebrew Bible by way of an research of the biblical textual content, counting on extra-biblical proof, really archaeology. The author's strategy is non-theological, relating Bible students for plenty of of his resources and utilizing rates from the Bible and old close to japanese texts to aid his conclusions. the conventional view of a divinely printed Pentateuch is tested and the writer recounts the advance of feedback of that view, culminating within the Documenary speculation, that is defined intimately. The advice is made that the Pentateuch and the Deuteronomistic historical past, finishing with the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE, emanate from a number of disparate resources. the writer explains that every one the proof exhibits that the earliest resources of the Pentateuch date from someday among 922 and 722 BCE, and he indicates that a lot of the Bible's narrative is delusion and divulges a political bias via its writers. usually, we're examining old fiction, obvious from the anachronisms, contradictions, and repetitions within the text.

By going to the roots of the Hebrew Bible, the booklet is meant as a private appraisal of its resources and biblical dogma. Examples of the Documentary speculation are famous, indicating that the books comprising the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) are a mixture of what have been initially self sustaining texts. The linkage of the ebook of Deuteronomy with the books Joshua, Judges, 1 and a couple of Samuel, and 1 and a couple of Kings, is proven, generating what turned referred to as the Deuteronomistic History.

The writer discusses many of the theories on the subject of the emergence of early Israel. He additionally notes the divisions that eventually break up the dominion and the occasions that resulted in the destruction of either the
northern nation of Israel in 722 BCE and the southern nation of Judah in 586 BCE as mirrored within the Bible and in extra-biblical resources.
The reader turns into conscious that the function of archaeology is particularly pertinent in assessing the historicity of the biblical textual content. ultimately, the writer reports the advance of the biblical textual content and appears on the Bible in its setting.

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