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Archaeology and the religion of Israel

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“Archaeological discoveries have compelled us to modify the standard tradition of the Conquest, as reflected in the book of Joshua. They have not, however, yielded results which conflict with the older traditions, which we find embedded in the Deuteronomic narrative in the books of Joshua and Judges, supplemented by scattered data elsewhere. At present we cannot propose any safe reconstruction of the actual course of events during the period of the Israelite settlement in Palestine. What we already know from archaeological sources, however, is enough to disprove any radical reconstruction… We are in a more favorable position with reference to Israelite religion just before the invasion of Canaan than we are in regard to its external history. The Mosaic tradition is so consistent, so well attested to by different Pentateuchal documents, and so congruent with our independent knowledge of the religious development of the Near East in the late second millennium B.C., that only hypercritical pseudo-rationalism can reject its essential historicity.

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220.93 ALB a

Z. HANDIMAN

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220.93 ALB a

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New York : Anchor Book., 1969

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xx, 267p.; 18 cm.

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English

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220.93

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BIBLE - ARCHAEOLOGY

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