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(More customer reviews)This is the most balanced study of the Hebrew Bible available today. Dr. Isbell is very sensitive to the subject matter and the debate over biblical "truth".
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With a healthy balance of criticism and respect for the subject, this book examines how the Jewish Bible became "The Bible." It is common to speak of the Bible as "inspired"-a group of mysterious documentsmiraculously handed down from heaven, absolutely perfect in form, every word, every letter, carrying specifically divine significance, but it was just well edited. This book is an excellent choice for a Bible history or Bible as literature undergraduate course text.Writing in ancient societies performed quite a different function from its modern usage. We must constantly remember that writing for the ancients was preservative rather than creative. The Bible preserves such debate and differences of opinion.
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