The Deuteronomic or, more properly, Deuteronomistic History is a modern theoretical construct which holds that the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings constitute a single work, unified by a basic homogeneity in language, style, and content. This construct owe…
In recent years there has been a tendency among certain scholars to claim that little can be known about pre-exilic Israel, because the Old Testament was only compiled in the post-exilic period (for example Philip Davies, Thomas Thompson, Neils Peter Lemche). One scholar (Lemche…
Antoon Schoors is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Arts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is the author of I Am God Your Saviour: A Form-Critical Study of the Main Genres in Isa XL-LV (Brill).