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 66
... period of Judges Meanwhile , this period of Hebrew beginnings was marked by several incidents which , although local in their immediate bearing , had significance for the epoch as a whole . The first involved an attack upon the ...
... period of Judges Meanwhile , this period of Hebrew beginnings was marked by several incidents which , although local in their immediate bearing , had significance for the epoch as a whole . The first involved an attack upon the ...
Page 71
... period , long after the Israelites had settled in Canaan . Hence , the Abram passage , quoted from Genesis , comes to us through a writer who knew of the city by its later name , not by the name which it bore during the earlier period ...
... period , long after the Israelites had settled in Canaan . Hence , the Abram passage , quoted from Genesis , comes to us through a writer who knew of the city by its later name , not by the name which it bore during the earlier period ...
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... period and into the reign of David . The Jewish introduction , or preface , to Judges not only tries to exalt and magnify Judah but also seeks to belittle the Josephites by telling how " the house of Joseph , they also went up " and ...
... period and into the reign of David . The Jewish introduction , or preface , to Judges not only tries to exalt and magnify Judah but also seeks to belittle the Josephites by telling how " the house of Joseph , they also went up " and ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH | 17 |
THE JOSEPHITE ENCLAVE | 35 |
Copyright | |
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