January 21, 2000

A Reluctant Israeli Public Grapples With What Scholarship Reveals About the Old Testament's Version of History

By HAIM WATZMAN

"If Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and David aren't proven, how am I supposed to live with that?"

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The agonized question came from the crowded back row of an auditorium at Ben-Gurion University, during a conference titled "Has the Biblical Period

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