LECTURE 1: A Short History of Liberal OT Criticism. Introduction. The Old Testament is a divine work, being the first part of God’s special revelation. Without it, it is difficult to imagine how the Israelites before the New Testament era could have ever existed. That extreme sounding statement is quite axiomatic for anyone who holds to the divine inspiration of Scripture, since without the Old Testament, the nation of Israel would have no laws, no promises, and no mandate – …
Category: Biblical Studies
LECTURE 2: The Rise of the Revisionists. What’s All The Fuss About? Since about the beginning of the 1970’s a group of radical “revisionist” historians of Israel have been producing ever more virulent books and journal articles claiming to debunk the historical picture as set out in the Old Testament. Building upon the work of German scholars (one thinks especially of Albrecht Alt and Martin Noth), and utilizing a leftist sociologist brand of historiography, these scholars are now making pronouncements …
LECTURE 3: Facts We Can Verify. A Selection of Twenty Historical/Archaeological Evidences. It is all very well to speak about Bible History, but can the claim be substantiated? Does the Old Testament stand up under scrutiny? There follows a broad sampling of its impressive credentials in this area. …
This is an older post acting as a stop-gap until I can get my laptop fixed. Everybody knows it. The Bible is composed of two parts: what we have come to call the Old Testament and the New Testament. Too, most people understand that by the Old Testament we mean the 39 books of the Protestant Bible. These are the same books which in a different arrangement and enumeration make up the 22 books of the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible. …