If the Egyptians drowned in the Red Sea where are pharaoh's chariots? : Exploring the historical dimension of the Bible /

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Author / Creator:Scolnic, Benjamin Edidin.
Imprint:Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2005.
Description:198 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Judaism
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5636293
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Varying Form of Title:Exploring the historical dimension of the Bible
ISBN:0761831479 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780761831471
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-198).
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Presumed True
  • Chapter I. The Source of Rivers and the Source of Texts
  • Chapter II. Missing the Boat: Why Noah's Ark Sails Without Us
  • Chapter III. Follow the Dreams: Joseph and the Meaning of Dual Causality
  • Chapter IV. Gold or Coal: Re-Imagining the Early Life of Moses
  • Chapter V. The Case for the Historicity of the Israelite Exodus from Egypt If I Told You What Really Happened, You'd Never Believe Me
  • Chapter VI. The Search for the Site of the Miracle of the Sea
  • Chapter VII. The Israelites in Canaan and the Minimalist/Palestinian Denial of History
  • Chapter VIII. Why Eliah is the Prophet of Waiting How Archaeology Illuminates a Great Assassination Plot
  • Chapter IX. Why is Amos Famous?
  • Chapter X. Like a Bird in a Cage: Why Isaiah is #1 on the Prophetical Canonical Parade
  • Chapter XI. A Time for Treason or The Comfort in Destruction
  • Chapter XII. Love is Stronger than Death Archaeology and Beliefs in the Afterlife
  • Chapter XIII. What I Believe: A Theology of Biblical Archaeology
  • Bibliography