The Hebrew Bible: New Insights and Scholarship

Book Overview

In April of 2001, the headline in the Los Angeles Times read, "Doubting the Story of the Exodus." It covered a sermon that had been delivered by the rabbi of a prominent local congregation over the holiday of Passover. In it, he said, "The truth is that virtually every modern archeologist who has investigated the story of the exodus, with very few exceptions, agrees that the way the Bible describes the exodus is not the way it happened,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814731880
• ISBN13: 9780814731888
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.9"