I can see this work appealing to both specialists and non-experts in the field, and indeed even to interested laypeople. Indeed, it is precisely this quality that makes the book such a delight to read. The author’s approach is never polemical, but always clear the positions taken are not necessarily always the standard positions, but they are always defended from the evidence. Some of the questions which the book takes up are thorny questions indeed, having provoked lots of black ink and fiery debate along the way. The second thing Steinmann shows about history-and this is no less important-is its complexity. These events are not the yarn of legend: on the contrary, there is every good intellectually-compelling reason to accept them as history, history that really happened in time and space. First, he shows that in many cases with a little scholarly spadework we can have a pretty good idea as to when key events took place, events like the life of Abraham, the Conquest of the Promised Land, the birth of Jesus, or Paul’s Second Missionary Journey. Steinmann not only assumes-quite rightly-that history matters, but he also shows two things about biblical history. It is a book which should have been written decades ago. AbleLight Disability Faith Support ResourcesįROM THE FOREWORD: Enter Andrew E.Creative Worship for the Lutheran Parish.Caminando con Jesús (Spanish Sunday School).
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