Studying a literary work ‘synchronically’ means studying it

One reason for calling the stories of Israel’s ancestors ‘legends’ is that the names they give to the characters were not genuinely ancient, but were instead names commonly in use at a later time, when those stories were actually written.

In the Sinai Covenant, the Lord’s assertion that “I…brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery” (Exod. 20:2) would count as which part of a vassal treaty?

The goal of the academic approach to the Bible is to

The deity in the second creation story (Gen. 2) is very anthropomorphic. This suggests it was written by

The Merneptah Stele suggests a date for the Exodus in roughly:

Which is not one of the sources posited by the Documentary Hypothesis?

According to the biblical narrative, the personal name of the deity was unknown until it was revealed to:

Jonah gets angry at God because:

The book of Proverbs can be characterized as skeptical/cynical in outlook.