History and ideology in the Old Testament : biblical studies at the end of a millennium
Professor Barr has brought together aspects of controversy about the Bible at the end of the millennium with an emphasis on the Old Testament and the history of Israel. The central question is how far the Bible gives us a vision into a real world of the past and how far it expresses a world imagined for religious reasons by writes who lived many centuries later.
viii, 198 pages ; 23 cm
9780198269878, 0198269870
122965741
"The Hensley Henson Lectures for 1997 delivered to the University of Oxford."--Cip title page