"We can now say with considerable confidence that……" — Thomas L. Thompson

"We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past.... The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction... Not only have Adam and Eve and the flood story passed over to mythology, but we can no longer talk about a time of the patriarchs. There never was a "United Monarchy" in history and it is meaningless to speak of pre-exilic prophets and their writings... The Bible deals with the origin traditions of a people who never existed as such"

— Thomas L. Thompson

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The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel ...…

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