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Ancient Near East

“Make yourself an ancient near easterner”: Avigdor Horovitz on the Bible and the Ancient Near East

August 8, 2017May 8, 2015

The biblical scholar Avigdor Horovitz wrote a brief email to Henrik Johnsson back in 1999 with some insightful advice on how to best study the Bible in its ancient Near Eastern context. Below is an image of the email exchange and my transcription. I got my hands on a copy of this exchange at some point … Read more

Tags Ancient Near East, Bible, pseudepigrapha

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