Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG]

Please, Lloyd, can you clarify a little less tersely, and for the 
benefit of all of us, your use of the Biblical text in reaching your 
conclusions.

Clearly you must reject large parts of the text e.g. all the records 
of the united monarchy and large parts of Genesis, Exodus, Joshua and 
Judges; also all parts of later books which refer back to the united 
monarchy. Incidentally, what is your theory of the origin of these 
passages referring to Israel as a unity?

Yet it seems that you are accepting other large parts of the text as 
historical. Or are you basing your reconstruction solely on 
archaeological evidence?

What is your consistent basis for deciding which parts of the Biblical 
text are historically reliable and which are later fabrications?

Peter Kirk