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Essays on the Patriarchal Narratives, Paperback / softback Book

Essays on the Patriarchal Narratives Paperback / softback

Edited by A R Millard, D J (The British Academy) Wiseman

Paperback / softback

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Today, there is renewed interest in the history and traditions of the patriarchal period.

Recent publications have sought, among other things, to show that the biblical patriarchs were a literary, even fictional, creation of the first millennium BC, produced to provide the nation of Israel, which came into prominence only then, with ""founding fathers."" Much of this new writing is helpful in distinguishing what are traditional or speculative interpretations from the basic texts of Genesis.

Sometimes archaeological evidence has been adducted in support of the historicity of the patriarchs and their cultural background in the second millennium BC which can no longer be sustained.

Sometimes, however, the value of such evidence is ignored or belittled. -- from the preface

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