Secrets of the Times: Myth and History in Biblical Chronology
By (Author) Jeremy Hughes
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Sheffield Academic Press
1st November 2009
NIPPOD
United Kingdom
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Christianity
Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts
221.1
Paperback
312
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
This book is concerned primarily with the chronology of the Hebrew Bible in its various textual forms. The central thesis is that these chronologies are essentially schematic and may be seen as mythical expressions of a belief that human history is ordered according to a divine plan.