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The Bible contains many doublets: conflicting accounts of the same event. These are a challenge to faith: if the Bible is the Word of God, how can it differ from itself? It was proposed that the first five books of the Old Testament were formed from combining four source texts, each of them without contradictions. But scholars have argued endlessly over the details, and in any case, there are doublets in the other books of the Bible. How to deal with all of them?
This book regards the Bible as words of men about God, and sees the doublets as evidence of growth over time, as an early opinion is superseded by a later one. On this view, the doublets are not the problem, they are the answer: they show the growth of doctrine and opinion as the Biblical centuries pass.
That approach is supplemented by a new statistical test of stylistic difference, which can suggest, on objective grounds, which Biblical passages might be, and which could not be, by the same writer. Both Canaanite and Hebrew traditions are noticed, and tendencies common to all the antiquities, such as urbanization, law, and the new legal status of women, are given due attention.
Contents
ORIENTATION
The Land The Peoples
The Gods
The Kings
Ancient Texts
CANAANITE TRADITION
The Garden of Eden
Cain and Abel
Seth
Noah's Ark
The Creation
THE NORTHERN PATRIARCHS
Abram / Abraham
Isaac
Jacob / Israel
Dinah The Joseph Story
The Twelve Tribes
OUT OF EGYPT Moses and Aaron
The Miracles
The Passover
Pharaoh's Chariots
Into the Wilderness
THE LAWS OF EXODUS
The Sinai Covenant
The Covenant Code
The Decalogue
Two Festival Codes
The Tabernacle
LEVITICUS AND NUMBERS
Leviticus
Nadab and Abihu
The Holiness Code
Numbers
Balaam
The Final Approach
Zelophehad's Daughters
DEUTERONOMY
To the Jordan
Admonitions
The Decalogue Code
Updating the Covenant
The Death of Moses
THE CONQUEST
Khirbet el-Masterah
Joshua
The Song of Deborah
The Twelve Judges
The Philistines
THREE KINGS
Samuel
Saul
Goliath
David
The Psalms of David
Solomon
TWO KINGDOMS
The Book of Kings
Jezebel's Wedding
Elijah
Elisha
The War with Moab
Hezekiah's Defense
Josiah's Venture
EXILE AND RETURN
Yehud
The Torah Psalter
Job
Qoheleth
The Second Temple
Song of Ascents
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
Nehemiah / Ezra
Ruth
The Samaritans
Elephantine
The Book of Chronicles Jonah
The Ethical Horizon
END MATTER
Chronology
Maps
Works Cited
Passages Quoted
Subject Index
