LIBERAL CHALLENGES TO THE HISTORICITY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
OUTLINE:
Lecture 1: A Short History of OT Liberal Criticism.
Introduction
Major Critics of the Old Testament:
Celsus (d. c. 180)
Porphyry (c. 234-c. 305).
Astruc (1684-1766)
Eichhorn (1752-1857)
German Higher Criticism:
Wellhausen (1844-1918)
Troeltsch (1865-1923)
Noth (1902-1968)
Albright (1891-1971)
Mendenhall (present)
The Conservative Response
Conclusion.
Lecture 2: The Rise of the Revisionists.
Introduction
What’s All The Fuss About?
Inspecting The Assertions
Historiography: Art or Science?
The Quest for Scientific Respectability
The Vanishing Individual
The Limits of Historiography
A Stinging Reply
Lecture 3: Facts We Can Verify.
A Selection of Twenty Historical Evidences
Closing Remarks: Cutting Through The Rhetoric.
