Early Israel

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This paper looks briefly at some of the major elements of Israel's history from a Baptist perspective. Focusing mostly on John Bright's History of Israel, the paper goes through a summary of some of the major aspects of Israel's history, and discusses the context of a Bible-believing faith such as the Baptists, and the conflict between archaeology and the Bible.

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"Understanding the history of ancient Israel is always a complex undertaking, since what is generally meant by ancient Israel covers several thousand years, beginning with the migration of the patriarchs approximately four thousand years ago (Bright 23). When studying the history of the Jewish people from a Christian, Bible-believing perspective like that of the Baptist faith, there are several considerations to be made. First, since Baptists believe that the Bible is absolutely true, one might be tempted to only use the Bible as the source of Jewish and Israelite history ("Faith and Message"). However, with the development and discovery of more modern linguistic and archaeological technology and evidence, it is becoming more difficult to have a purely Biblical understanding of the history of Israel. "

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