Books that are so good I don’t know what to say about them

Have you ever read God, A Biography? It treats God as a literary character as the basis for analysis of the Old Testament. I’m curious as to how Kugel’s book compares. (I lost interest in Miles’ book after 200 pages or so…there’s surprisingly little of God in the Bible and all the guessing as to His purposes got a little tiresome.)

I’m sure many people will be impressed with the “scholarship” that Kugel crams into his book, but does Kugel ever mention that several schools of Biblical scholarship exist that contradict each other’s findings as much as the differing schools of economics, especially Austrian and Keynesian, contradict each other? For every scholar who defends the documentary hypothesis of Genesis, another scholar equally qualified attacks it.

So Kugel has decided to side with the “scholars” who attack the historicity of the Bible? What is so new or amazing about that? “Scholars” have done that for the past 200 years. Other scholars, using the same tools that Kugel’s scholars use, have proven the OT to be amazingly accurate historically. Does one scholar see contradictions and impossibilities? Another finds the same passages contain amazing paradoxes and deep insights.

Just out of curiosity, I would like to know if Tyler has ever read any scholarship that defends the accuracy and historicity of the Bible? If not, why not? Would you consider yourself educated in economics if you didn’t know at least some aspects of Keynesian, neo-classical and Austrian econ?

I encourage everyone to read Kugel’s book. Then read the Wikipedia entries on “The Bible and History” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_history and “The Documentary Hypothesis” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis. Both articles seem to give a balanced view of the opposing sides in the argument with bibliographies for further reading.

The bible can in fact be 100% historically accurate and written by multiple authors without any divine inspiration.

Not to detract from the considerable and important work done by James Kugel, but a lot of this territory was covered in “Asimov’s Guide to the Bible” by Isaac Asimov, written in two parts in 1967 and 1969. Check it out.

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