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By Victor Hurowitz

Idols of the People: Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East

P.R.S. Moorey
Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003. 102 pp., $45

For some two millennia the Hebrew Bible, whether read through confessional or independent interpretations, was the exclusive window for viewing the religion of ancient Israel. With the rise of critical scholarship in the 19th century, the reliability of the Bible was called into question concerning the periods it described, but it was still considered trustworthy for reflecting the ages in which its various strands were composed. However, over the years some scholars have viewed the Bible as tendentious, anachronistic and as having a highly distorted view of ancient Israel’s true religious beliefs and practices. In the estimation of these […]

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Footnotes

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See Dan Bahat, “Does the Holy Sepulchre Church Mark the Burial of Jesus?” BAR 12:03.

Endnotes

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F.M. Cross, “The Development of the Jewish Scripts,” in The Bible and Ancient Near East, ed. by G.E. Wright (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1961).