On the Reliability of the Old TestamentWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 9 juin 2006 - 684 pages For more than two hundred years controversy has raged over the reliability of the Old Testament. Questions about the factuality of its colorful stories of heroes, villains, and kings, for example, have led many critics to see the entire Hebrew Bible as little more than pious fiction. In this fascinating book, noted ancient historian K. A. Kitchen takes strong issue with today's "revisionist" critics and offers a firm foundation for the historicity of the biblical texts. In a detailed, comprehensive, and entertaining manner, Kitchen draws on an unprecedented range of historical data from the ancient Near East -- the Bible's own world -- and uses it to soundly reassess both the biblical record and the critics who condemn it. Working back from the latest periods (for which hard evidence is readily available) to the remotest times, Kitchen systematically shows up the many failures of favored arguments against the Bible and marshals pertinent permanent evidence from antiquity's inscriptions and artifacts to demonstrate the basic honesty of the Old Testament writers. Enhanced with numerous tables, figures, and maps, On the Reliability of the Old Testament is a must-read for anyone interested in the question of biblical truth. |
Table des matières
Tables Figures | 10 |
Preface | 13 |
A Provisional Scheme of Dates for the Epoch of the Judges | 15 |
Abbreviations | 16 |
First Things First Whats in Question? | 23 |
The Seven Segments of Traditional Biblical History 5 | 27 |
In Medias Res the Era of the Hebrew Kingdoms | 29 |
Hebrew Kings and Contemporaries Given by the Biblical Sources 8 | 30 |
Articulation in Plague Narrative | 275 |
Topography and Text Etham to Mount Sinai | 293 |
The Sinai Covenant and Its Renewals | 306 |
Deuteronomy 28 Curses and Other Sources | 314 |
1 | 331 |
Founding Fathers or Fleeting Phantoms the Patriarchs | 335 |
Yahdunlim and Genesis 14 | 344 |
A Vitamin Supplement Prophets and Prophecy | 395 |
Basic Dates 30 | 52 |
Individual Site Profiles ca 1000500 B C 58 | 80 |
Outline Correlation of Archaeological Data External Written Sources and Biblical Data 61 | 83 |
Home and Away Exile and Return | 87 |
NeoBabylonian and Persian Rulers in OT and External Sources 73 33 | 95 |
The Empire Strikes Back Saul David and Solomon | 103 |
Kings and Suggested Dates Israelite United Monarchy | 105 |
Humble Beginnings around and in Canaan | 181 |
The Book of Joshua as It Is 160 | 182 |
Formulae for Captured Towns in Joshua 10 171 | 193 |
10A Formulae Towns Captured in EA 185 172 | 194 |
Book of Judges Outline and Layout 200 | 222 |
Zones in Which Judges Are Said to Have Operated 205 | 227 |
Explicit Sequences of Judges and Related People 206 | 228 |
Lotus Eating and Moving On Exodus and Covenant | 263 |
The Bifid Format of Isaiah | 401 |
Back to Methuselah and Well Beyond | 443 |
The Four Primeval Protohistories | 446 |
The Genesis 10 Family | 453 |
Twin Representative Sequences Creation to the Flood | 464 |
Last Things Last Notes Index of Subjects | 471 |
Undulation Not Evolution | 510 |
Index of Scripture References viii | 547 |
X | 555 |
xiii | 557 |
81 | 589 |
159 | 594 |
241 | 598 |
643 | |