spin

You might believe that, but besides Dever's devious words (and they are calculated, in that they don't really say anything other than that it's the best defense of a literal reading as history, which means nothing in itself), the only other name of note is a philologist with mainly linguistic leanings (Rendsburg -- who's fairly conservative in his views), so actually the solicited reviews aren't really that impressive, unless you're impressed with a theological college, a theological society, someone from Wheaton or the Denver Journal. Now if you saw a Naaman or a Beckman or a few really notable critiques then you might turn a few eyes. As is, Dever and Rendsburg aren't big drawers.

Doug Shaver

That doesn't make them representative. Amazon wants to sell the book. Quotations from the reviews will be selected accordingly.

blackrayne

great book read it twice

DrJim

Here is a positive review of the book:
http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/2041_1078.pdf

But it is still not on my "must read" list.

Jim

Solitary Man

Well aware. Why are you stating the obvious again?

Solitary Man

Hence the very important qualifier might. As in it has potential, it could be good, etc... If it was attached to really big reviewers, than I would pronounce with a little more certainty, like I am with Davies and Allison's ICC commentary on Matthew. Definitely worth it to pick it up.

burning flames

do you think his pro israel in egypt arguments are valid? more or less so than the ones found in "the bible unearthed?"

spin

Could come in a brown paper bag with no touted reviews and it might still be worth a read. [M]ight covers a lot of evils.

Oh, and in the pedants' stakes,

that should be a "then".

spin

Indeed.


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spin

When the "united kingdom" (of David and Solomon) is up for grabs in scholarly debate, rearguard defenses of an Israel in Egypt (other than from Persian times) seem to be a bit ho-hum. The bible doesn't know about the arrival of the Philistines, which was a truly big bang on the Levantine coast, so you shouldn't give much credence to anything that supposedly happened before it.


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