The Old Testament and the Historian

by James Maxwell Miller

This is part of the Guide to Biblical Scholarship Series, Old Testament, a survey of exegetical methodologies.

Genres: Biblical Studies

95 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

Reviews

[Timothy Klob]

Detailed and succinct summary of how to approach biblical studies from the perspective of a historian, and how historical analysis interacts with textual criticism. Requires a closer reading than some of the other volumes in this series of biblical studies guides, particularly due to the detailed discussion of dates and events, but worth the effort.

[Erik Graff]

Some years ago, before moving from a large apartment on Chase to a smaller one on Bosworth in East Rogers Park, Chicago, I traded in almost all softcovers at a paperback exchange in Sawyer, Michigan. This was one of the many sacrifices.

As I recall, the "Guide to Biblical Scholarship" was a series of small paperbacks about biblical exegetics and the methods employed: source criticism, form criticism, redaction criticism et cetera. This was a volume of that series and it wasn't particularly memorable.