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Past posts here have argued for the Biblical literature taking shape primarily in the Hellenistic era. That’s not the common view, however. While traditional views have assigned the earliest “proto-books” to the Iron age, the time of the Kingdoms of David and Solomon, or the time of King Josiah, much of the shaping of the … href="https://vridar.org/2025/11/30/persian-perio...
It’s been a long time since I first posted about the work of Marlene Winell. Marlene’s book Leaving the Fold helped me enormously and I have shared some of the positives I gained from it in many posts. (Many more posts referencing Marlene and her work are listed here.)I have finally caught up with a … href="https://vridar.org/2025/11/20/helps-to-survive-harmful-religion/" ...
Yonatan Adler has posted on his academia.edu page that from today we are able to download his new book for free.Free to download for two weeks only!Starting today, you can download for free my new book: Between Yahwism and Judaism: Judean Cult and Culture during the Early Hellenistic Period (332–175 BCE)Download it now, and read … href="https://vridar.org/2025/10/22/yonata...
While translating Dibelius’s book on John the Baptist (Die urchristliche Überlieferung von Johannes dem Täufer, 1911), I have been contemplating his discussions concerning methods of literary criticism. In particular, how do we identify bits of tradition from the later narrative framework in which they were placed? The collectors’ additions are often clearly distinguishable from...
Such problems are never discussed. It is obvious that the inscription has been accepted in modern Israel as a kind of magna carta for the relations between the modern state and ancient Israel, a holy text, even more holy than the Hebrew Bible and as such beyond discussion – including any discussion about the meaning … href="https://vridar.org/2025/10/11/the-tel-dan-inscriptio...
