The Bible: Who's History Is It?

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Here is a review of The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel by Thompson Thompson.

 

...Essentially, Whitelam and Thompson and others are saying that our history, which is infused with the "transference of the history of Israel to Europe," is a creation of Eurocentric modes of thought. It is also what has brought our world to the precipice of annihilation today.

 

So the question of who is in power, how they think, what effect this has on society, is not an inconsequential one; we are living with its consequences today...