Barr brings together aspects of controversy about the Bible at the end of the millennium with an emphasis on the Old Testament and the history of Israel. The ce... » 

Barr brings together aspects of controversy about the Bible at the end of the millennium with an emphasis on the Old Testament and the history of Israel. The central question is how far the Bible gives us a vision into a real world of the past and how far it expresses a world imagined for religious reasons by writes who lived many centuries later. «