FROM ABRAHAM TO PAUL: A BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY


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FROM THE FOREWORD: Enter Andrew E. Steinmann� s From Abraham to Paul. It is a book which should have been written decades ago. Here’s why. Steinmann not only assumes� quite rightly� �that history matters, but he also shows two things about biblical history. First, he shows that in many cases with a little scholarly spadework we can have a pretty good idea as to when key events took place, events like the life of Abraham, the Conquest of the Promised Land, the birth of Jesus, or Paul s Second Missionary Journey. These events are not the yarn of legend: on the contrary, there is every good intellectually-compelling reason to accept them as history, history that really happened in time and space. . . . The second thing Steinmann shows about history and this is no less important� is its complexity. Some of the questions which the book takes up are thorny questions indeed, having provoked lots of black ink and fiery debate along the way. The author� s approach is never polemical, but always clear; the positions taken are not necessarily always the standard positions, but they are always defended from the evidence. Indeed, it is precisely this quality that makes the book such a delight to read. . . .FROM ABRAHAM TO PAUL: A BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY Review
I have read some five or six book on Biblical chronology insluding Edwin Thiele's book "The Mysterious Numbers of the Kings" (of Israel). Steinmann's book goes forward from Thiele's book with corrections to various assumptions he had made goving detailed information on the period from Abraham to Paul. I have not finished it entirely yet because I am working through the time-line, but I love this. I bought it on a whim, but am glad I did. (I would recommend anyone interested to also buy Thiele's book so you will understand more comnpletely.)Most of the consumer Reviews tell that the "FROM ABRAHAM TO PAUL: A BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY" are high quality item. You can read each testimony from consumers to find out cons and pros from FROM ABRAHAM TO PAUL: A BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY ...

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