What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It? What Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel

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What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It? What Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel by William G. Dever Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2001. 326 pp. $17.50. ISBN 08028-4794-3.

DEVER'S VOLUME is two books in one: a polemical broadside, and a primer in Palestinian archaeology. Dever takes on the revisionist school of biblical interpretation, which regards the history of Israel as a theological construct invented by the Persian and Greek-period Jewish scribes who wrote the Bible. He attacks both the philosophical underpinnings of this movement, which he ...

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