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Some Guidelines for Thinking About Biblical Historicity vs. Archaeology (Part 2 of 2)

February 05, 2021 • Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss

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In today's Lomdeha Friday Seminar (2/5/21) we continued our "guided reading" of Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman's book. In the last shiur we covered four out of six guidelines for how to respond to claims, questions, and problems raised by archeologists and scholars of ancient history against the historicity (and validity) of the Torah. In this shiur we tackled the remaining two, the last of which requires much nuance and caution.

Link to Part 1
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- link to the full text of Gottlieb's book
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