Quotes About Near Eastern

But biblical and other ancient Near Eastern sources do not share Enlightenment theology of sophisticated intellectuals (ancient and modern).

there is no concept of a "natural" world in ancient Near Eastern thinking. The dichotomy between natural and supernatural is a relatively recent one.

Early Near Eastern villages domesticated plants and animals. Uruk urban institutions, in turn, domesticated humans.

The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many.

In any event, there are many ways to examine and study the relationship between the Bible and other ancient Near Eastern texts. Polemical theology, in my estimation, is one of the more important ones. It helps to highlight the distinctiveness and uniqueness of the Hebrew worldview over against the dominant setting of the rest of the ancient Near East.