The Bible is HumanColumbia University Press, 1942 - 330 pages Presents as its theme the importance of God as revealed in the secular history of Israel. Features a scientific approach and the significance of Bible history. |
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Page 91
... Saul's day was not a twelve- tribe nation and that the Gibeah tale in Judges ( not the incident upon which it is based , but the tale itself ) comes from a much later period than the actual , historical narrative about Saul's cutting ...
... Saul's day was not a twelve- tribe nation and that the Gibeah tale in Judges ( not the incident upon which it is based , but the tale itself ) comes from a much later period than the actual , historical narrative about Saul's cutting ...
Page 98
... Saul were great men - each in his own way . Saul was a provincial farmer , whose main object was to hold back the Philistine menace , which made necessary the consolidation of Ephraim under strong mo- narchic authority . " There was ...
... Saul were great men - each in his own way . Saul was a provincial farmer , whose main object was to hold back the Philistine menace , which made necessary the consolidation of Ephraim under strong mo- narchic authority . " There was ...
Page 99
... Saul's provincialism , David was not " patriotic " ; and why should he have been ? From the beginning the southern part of Canaan had never made common cause with Ephraim , as we learned when studying the great battle of Esdraelon in ...
... Saul's provincialism , David was not " patriotic " ; and why should he have been ? From the beginning the southern part of Canaan had never made common cause with Ephraim , as we learned when studying the great battle of Esdraelon in ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH | 17 |
THE JOSEPHITE ENCLAVE | 35 |
Copyright | |
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