In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel

by John Day

In recent years there has been a tendency among certain scholars to claim that little can be known about pre-exilic Israel, because the Old Testament was only compiled in the post-exilic period (for example Philip Davies, Thomas Thompson, Neils Peter Lemche). One scholar (Lemche) has even claimed that the Old Testament is a Hellenistic work. The purpose of this book is to argue that this is an extreme and untenable position and that, though much of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567082067
• ISBN13: 9780567082060
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"