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Book: If I Forget You, Jerusalem!

Chapter: 10. On History, Sociology, and Theology: Old Testament Perspectives

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.44801

Blurb:

Biblical scholars of the old school, i.e. exclusively subscribing to historical-critical methods, have seldom been interested in sociological matters. They never understood the changes that had taken place on twenty century scholarship where the most interesting advancement has been the development of the behavioral sciences, not least sociology. Instead they created a meta-universe of ancient Israel, a society that never existed except in their own fantasy.

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