Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2023
Summary
Interpretation of the Bible has continued, without interruption, for more than two millennia, yet our understanding of its origins and teachings has dramatically expanded in recent times thanks to remarkable discoveries. Over the past century, methods of archeological research have reached impressive levels of sophistication, and excavation teams working at scores of sites throughout the Middle East continue to unearth all kinds of evidence for the communities that produced the Bible – their ways of life, their mechanisms for coping with crises, and the historical events that shaped their destinies.
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- Why the Bible BeganAn Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins, pp. 1 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023