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Old 12-07-2007, 12:00 AM   #1
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has anyone read this book?

Israel in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition (or via: amazon.co.uk)
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No, but it got great reviews. Might be worth it to pick it up.
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I could use the escape of some good speculative fiction.
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The author begins with the proposition that while no direct archæological evidence for the Exodus has been discovered to date, indirect indications show the events transcribed to be plausible and therefore potentially historical

Ah, yes....the old "indirect indications" routine. Are we to hear of the Ipuwer Papyrus, yet again? Sounds like he has ripped off Kitchen.
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who is kitchen?
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it got great reviews
From whom?

I saw the "Editorial Reviews" quoted on Amazon. Surely you're not assuming that they're representative?
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Old 12-09-2007, 03:59 PM   #7
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it got one negative review at amazon. do you know of other reviews?
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Old 12-09-2007, 04:17 PM   #8
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it got great reviews
From whom?

I saw the "Editorial Reviews" quoted on Amazon. Surely you're not assuming that they're representative?
Did you see who reviewed it? Big names.
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Well how would you take this?
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"The best and most good-spirited defense yet of the conservative position that takes the Biblical "Exodus-Conquest" narratives literally as history."--William G. Dever, University of Arizona
It sounds positive, but it reserves the right to say that the book is completely wrong.
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"The best and most good-spirited defense yet of the conservative position that takes the Biblical "Exodus-Conquest" narratives literally as history."--William G. Dever, University of Arizona
It sounds positive, but it reserves the right to say that the book is completely wrong.
Of course. The book may be completely wrong. Are you familiar with William G. Dever before you go now and look him up on wikipedia?
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