Sublime

My interest, however, is in reading the Bible like an ancient Israelite,2 what is often called reading the Bible from a historical-critical perspective.

Scholars call the final editor R, for…

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the biblical authors understood all law as divine law11

Thus, developing a sympathetic understanding of ritual is crucial for understanding what biblical texts meant.

suggest that this material was not written in order to represent what actually happened, but rather, on the level of mythological material, to deal with such fundamental questions as: Why do we own this land? How should we react in the face of adversity?

we would run a strong risk of being misled if we simply opened a history book and believed everything we read there.

Genesis 1-3 is…

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In contrast, most of chapters 2-3 is free flowing, with a much looser structure,

In this case, Kethevim has come to serve as a catchall term. It is a miscellany