p. 44 : “namely the uniqueness”

but it also raises another theological issue, namely the uniqueness of Israel’s religion vis–vis other ancient Near Eastern religions. That there are striking similarities between Israel and her neighbors is not a debatable point,

history (so to speak) but a story, however plausibly rooted in historical events, whose expression participates in an ancient literary convention of some sort.”

“what may be called the “mythologizing of history”

it is a historical event “that is recounted in ANE mythic categories, biblical analogues for which are seen in the ancient literary convention

“in a manner that reflects both deep “doctrinal commitments and intellectual integrity.”

[Exodus, Historiography]

not likely

p. 46 : “The case has been made”

“The case has been made convincingly (perhaps the most influential work is that of E. P. Sanders, Paul and Palestinian Judaism) that the post-Reformation presentation of a dead, legalistic Judaism in NT times is largely without support in the Jewish literature of the time. Rather, the God”

[Law of God]

*

p. 47 : “is presented in the li”

God “is presented in the literature of the time as gracious, loving, and forgiving.”

[Law of God]

*

p. 54 : “the NT says some of th”

“retold Bible, but the fact that in retelling the OT, the NT says some of the same things about the OT that are found only in the intertestamental sources and not in the OT.”

[Law of God]

(I wonder if this was the edition of the Eerdmans OT Dictionary that I had on my Palm.)