Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History

Modern biblical scholarship's commitment to the historical-critical method

In its efforts to write a history of Israel, modern biblical scholarship has created the central and unavoidable problem of writing an objective and critical history of Palestine through the biblical literature with the methods of Biblical Archaeology.

Introduction to the volume

Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History brings together key essays on historical method and the archaeology and history of Palestine. The essays employ comparative and formalistic techniques to illuminate the allegorical and mythical in Old Testament narrative traditions from Genesis to Nehemiah.

Scope and significance

In so doing, the volume presents a detailed review of central and radical changes in both our understanding of biblical traditions and the archaeology and history of Palestine. The study offers an analysis of Biblical narrative as rooted in ancient Near Eastern literature since the Bronze Age.