Recent discoveries and the Biblical world
By: Raymond E. Brown
Series: Background books
Publisher: M. Glazier
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Wilmington, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- 20th century; Bible -- Antiquities
Description: The Bible as "word of God" is a combination of divine inspiration and human time-conditioned perception. A knowledge of the civilizations and places in which God's people lived should convince open-minded Bible readers that the time-conditioning must be acknowledged if one is not to distort the Scriptures.
Notes: Includes index

Bibliography: p. 95-96