The Bible in History: How Writers Create A Past

The Bible In History: How Writers Create A Past

The Bible in History, subtitled How Writers Create a Past, (Pimlico, 1999), is a book by Thomas L. Thompson, Professor of Old Testament at the University of Copenhagen. Its US title is The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel.

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