Footnote 4 – Ancient Israel Through a Social Scientific Lens

These critics claim that Faust gives too much credit to the Biblical texts, a claim that Faust would of course deny—justly, in this reviewer’s opinion. Much of this debate has taken place on blogs, e-lists and unpublished conference papers, and thus cannot be quoted in an article such as this. This is unfortunate, since the proper venue for academic debate is in published articles and reviews.