El pasado de Israel en el Antiguo Testamento

• Autores: Emanuel O. Pfoh
• Localización: Antiguo Oriente: Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente, ISSN 1667-9202, Nº. 1, 2003, págs. 55-72
• Idioma: español
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  • For almost the last two hundred years of historical research we have been taught that Israel’s past in the Old Testament was a historical past that rendered us real events. Such a view is part of an ethnocentric and particularly western interpretation of the way ancient societies thought of their own past so, taking into account the lack of archaeological confirmation of the events portrayed in the Old Testament, we propose in this paper to conceive the whole of the biblical narrative as a mythical discourse which, although its utilization of extra-biblically confirmed historical events, cannot be used in a primary way for a modern recreation of the historical past of Israel in ancient Palestine