Giovanni Garbini, "Myth and History in the Bible (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series, 362)"
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press | 2003 | ISBN 082646260X | PDF | 161 pages | 10.6 MB
The Old Testament, and biblical scholarship itself, distinguishes between mythical and historical. This title argues that the only historical thing in the Bible is the Bible itself, a superb product of Jewish thought, whereas what is narrated in the Bible is only myth. However, 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 this controversial history and ideology in Ancient Israel, which combine detailed philological research, 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.