Re: [asa] restrained accommodationism?

Thanks ---- I just couldn't come up with "Ancient Near East" when I saw
the acronym in David's post. I was thinking of some literary conference
somewhere developing new methods of exegesis. Silly me! I can be
pretty slow.

--merv

I never learned from a man who agreed with me. --Robert A. Heinlein

Paul wrote:

>Merv wrote,
><<By the way, if anyone wants to provide a link to a site or previous post
>that gives a good summary of 'ANE' I would appreciate it.>>
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>I assume it is Bible and the Ancient Near East rather than the whole history
>of the ANE which interests you. I have not seen a site or post that covers
>all the connections, the most important of which seem to be in Gen 1-11.
>But, Gordon Wenham's Genesis 1-15 as well as John Walton's NIV Application
>Commentary on Genesis do a better job than most of relating the two within
>an Evangelical perspective. The most important raw materials, which cover
>much more than Genesis, are found in James Pritchard's Ancient Near Eastern
>Texts relating to the Old Testament. A good guide is Ancient Israelite
>Literature in its Cultural Context by John H. Walton. I would not recommend
>trying to read Pritchard without having Walton by my side.
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>Paul
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