The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for The Mythic Past A study of Old Testament and early Middle Eastern history. Using advances in Palestinian and biblical archaeology, the book aims to provide a synthesis of studies since the mid 1970s. In conclusion, the author argues that the notion of Israel and its history is a literary fiction.
Full description- Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
- Published: 06 April 2000
- Format: Paperback 432 pages
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- Categories: Middle Eastern History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Biblical Archaeology | History Of Religion | Biblical Studies & Exegesis | Judaism
- ISBN 13: 9780465006496 ISBN 10: 0465006493
- Sales rank: 228,800
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A major new synthesis and interpretation of findings over the past twenty-five years in biblical archaeology. Thompsons conclusions are sure to spark intense debate.. The Jewish people's historical claims to a small area of land bordering the eastern Mediterranean are not only the foundation for the modern state of Israel, they are also at the very heart of Judeo-Christian belief. Yet in The Mythic Past, Thomas Thompson argues that such claims are grounded in literary myth, not history. Among the author's startling conclusions are these: There never was a "united monarch" of Israel in biblical times We can no longer talk about a time of the Patriarchs The entire notion of "Israel" and its history is a literary fiction.The Mythic Past provides refreshing new ways to read the Old Testament as the great literature it was meant to be. At the same time, its controversial conclusions about Jewish history are sure to prove incendiary in a worldwide debate about one of the world's seminal texts, and one of its most bitterly contested regions.
