The Bible in history
Subtitle: how writers create a past
By: Thomas L. Thompson
Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780712667487
Subjects: Bible as literature; Critique et interprétation; Criticism, interpretation; Bible
Notes: Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One: How Stories Talk About the Past; title: History and origins: the changing text; title: Confusing stories with historical evidence; title: How the Bible talks about the past; title: Myths of origins; title: Part Two: How Historians Create a Past; title: Beginnings; title: A Mediterranean economy; title: Palestine's many peoples; title: Under the shadow of empires; title: Historians create history; title: Part Three: The Bible's Place in History; title: The Bible's social and historical worlds; title: The Bible's literary world; title: The Bible's theoretical world I: how God began; title: The Bible's theological world II: the myths of the sons of God; title: The Bible's theological world III: Israel as God's son; title: The Bible's intellectual world.