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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... earlier ages of the national history . Being now the sole representatives of Israel , the Jews tended to look back upon the entire past from a distinctly Judaic standpoint ; and their scribes , who compiled the Hebrew Bible out of earlier ...
... earlier ages of the national history . Being now the sole representatives of Israel , the Jews tended to look back upon the entire past from a distinctly Judaic standpoint ; and their scribes , who compiled the Hebrew Bible out of earlier ...
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... earlier period was not only " pre - Hebrew " in the more immediate sense but was also " prehistoric , " stretching back and back over thousands and thousands of years before the land was even called Canaan . Yet all this far - away ...
... earlier period was not only " pre - Hebrew " in the more immediate sense but was also " prehistoric , " stretching back and back over thousands and thousands of years before the land was even called Canaan . Yet all this far - away ...
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... earlier period . Another important fact , bearing upon the literary chronology of the Bible , is the statement that the family of Jonathan the Levite were priests to the tribe of Dan “ until the day of the captivity of the land . " The ...
... earlier period . Another important fact , bearing upon the literary chronology of the Bible , is the statement that the family of Jonathan the Levite were priests to the tribe of Dan “ until the day of the captivity of the land . " The ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH | 17 |
THE JOSEPHITE ENCLAVE | 35 |
Copyright | |
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