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06-16-2005, 06:00 AM
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Woo Hoo - I got me a Finkelstein and a Friedman...
My latest purchases from Amazon arrived this moring...
Finkelstein's "The Bible Unearthed", and Friedman's "The Bible With Sources Revealed". Friedman should be fairly familiar, since I have already read his "Who Wrote The Bible", but I haven't read any Finkelstein before... From what I gather from discussions with other people, he is much more of a minimalist than Friedman and argues against a Judea/Israel competitive authorship of J and E due to the paucity of evidence for a developed pre-exilic Israel and Judea. Any advice from people here? or should I just dive in? |
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06-16-2005, 08:23 AM
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Dive in! Finkelstein's book is emminently readable and the case well presented. It will be interesting to see how well it holds up with the inevitable future archeological finds.
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06-16-2005, 08:37 AM
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I'm currently reading Finkelstein's "The Bible Unearthed". I've read about half of it so far. It's very interesting, scholarly and weel-written. Dive in
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06-16-2005, 12:06 PM
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