King David

Sacred and Secular in Bible Times

E. Bruce Brooks, A. Takeo Brooks (Autoren)

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288 Seiten

2025
Warring States Project (Verlag)
978-1-936166-61-9 (ISBN)

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The Bible contains many doublets: conflicting accounts of the same event. These are a challenge to faith: if the Bible is the Word of God, how can it differ from itself? This book regards the Bible as words of men about God, and sees the doublets as evidence of growth over time, as an early opinion is superseded by a later one.

The Bible contains many doublets: conflicting accounts of the same event. These are a challenge to faith: if the Bible is the Word of God, how can it differ from itself? It was proposed that the first five books of the Old Testament were formed from combining four source texts, each of them without contradictions. But scholars have argued endlessly over the details, and in any case, there are doublets in the other books of the Bible. How to deal with all of them?
This book regards the Bible as words of men about God, and sees the doublets as evidence of growth over time, as an early opinion is superseded by a later one. On this view, the doublets are not the problem, they are the answer: they show the growth of doctrine and opinion as the Biblical centuries pass.
That approach is supplemented by a new statistical test of stylistic difference, which can suggest, on objective grounds, which Biblical passages might be, and which could not be, by the same writer. Both Canaanite and Hebrew traditions are noticed, and tendencies common to all the antiquities, such as urbanization, law, and the new legal status of women, are given due attention.

ORIENTATION

The Land The Peoples

The Gods

The Kings

Ancient Texts

CANAANITE TRADITION

The Garden of Eden

Cain and Abel

Seth

Noah's Ark

The Creation

THE NORTHERN PATRIARCHS

Abram / Abraham

Isaac

Jacob / Israel

Dinah The Joseph Story

The Twelve Tribes

OUT OF EGYPT Moses and Aaron

The Miracles

The Passover

Pharaoh's Chariots

Into the Wilderness

THE LAWS OF EXODUS

The Sinai Covenant

The Covenant Code

The Decalogue

Two Festival Codes

The Tabernacle

LEVITICUS AND NUMBERS

Leviticus

Nadab and Abihu

The Holiness Code

Numbers

Balaam

The Final Approach

Zelophehad's Daughters

DEUTERONOMY

To the Jordan

Admonitions

The Decalogue Code

Updating the Covenant

The Death of Moses

THE CONQUEST

Khirbet el-Masterah

Joshua

The Song of Deborah

The Twelve Judges

The Philistines

THREE KINGS

Samuel

Saul

Goliath

David

The Psalms of David

Solomon

TWO KINGDOMS

The Book of Kings

Jezebel's Wedding

Elijah

Elisha

The War with Moab

Hezekiah's Defense

Josiah's Venture

EXILE AND RETURN

Yehud

The Torah Psalter

Job

Qoheleth

The Second Temple

Song of Ascents

THE PARTING OF THE WAYS

Nehemiah / Ezra

Ruth

The Samaritans

Elephantine

The Book of Chronicles Jonah

The Ethical Horizon

END MATTER

Chronology

Maps

Works Cited

Passages Quoted

Subject Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2025
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Antiquity
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-936166-61-5 / 1936166615
ISBN-13	978-1-936166-61-9 / 9781936166619
Zustand	Neuware