aThis superb collection written by scholars for non-specialists
should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the
most important issues in the contemporary study of the Bible.a
--S. David Sperling, author of "The Original Torah"
aAn excellent supplementary textbook for survey courses on the
Hebrew Bible or on biblical scholarship.a
--John J. Collins, Yale University
In April of 2001, the headline in the "Los Angeles Times" read,
aDoubting the Story of the Exodus.a It covered a sermon that had
been delivered by the rabbi of a prominent local congregation over
the holiday of Passover. In it, he said, aThe truth is that
virtually every modern archeologist who has investigated the story
of the exodus, with very few exceptions, agrees that the way the
Bible describes the exodus is not the way it happened, if it
happened at all.a This seeming challenge to the biblical story
captivated the local public. Yet as the rabbi himself acknowledged,
his sermon contained nothing new. The theories that he described
had been common knowledge among biblical scholars for over thirty
years, though few people outside of the profession know their
relevance.
New understandings concerning the Bible have not filtered down
beyond specialists in university settings. There is a need to
communicate this research to a wider public of students and
educated readers outside of the academy. This volume seeks to meet
this need, with accessible and engaging chapters describing how
archeology, theology, ancient studies, literary studies, feminist
studies, and other disciplines now understand the Bible.
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