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in the 5th century BC. The author claims that this history was written at the same time as the events it describes in its various sections, and that this can be confirmed by comparing the Old Testament with non-Biblical sources, both written and archaeological. He clarifies by stating that there
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The core of the book is eight chapters (chapters 2 to 9) surveying Biblical history and comparing it to the ages with which it deals, from the 3rd millennium (the period to which Kitchen traces the origins of the Biblical stories of
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In chapter 10, despite supporting the historicity of the Bible, Kitchen also criticizes biblical archaeology as it was conceived in the first half of the 20th century, particularly the works of
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The book opens with an introductory chapter surveying the history with which it intends to deal, the continuous narrative in the
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are three elements he means to address, history, literature and culture, and three he does not, theology, doctrine, and dogma.
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and the return of the Jews to Jerusalem under the leadership of
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Richard N. Ostling (Associated Press) (7 February 2004).
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ISBN
0-8028-4960-1
Kenneth Kitchen
Richard Ostling
F. F. Bruce
Biblical minimalism
Old Testament
Hebrew Bible
Genesis creation narrative
Babylonian captivity
Persian Empire
Noah's Flood
Genesis
Babylonian captivity
Ezra
Nehemiah
William Foxwell Albright
Cyrus Herzl Gordon
The Making of the Pentateuch


"Professor defends reliability of Old Testament"


On the Reliability of the Old Testament
ISBN
978-0802849601
On the Reliability of the Old Testament
ISBN
978-0-8028-0396-2

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