The mythic past biblical archaeology and the myth of Israel - Thompson, Thomas L. (Basic Books, 1999)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xvii-xix) and index
Thompson insists that the Old Testament is a fantastic literary parable about a mankind that has lost its way, and in the process rejects all Jewish claims to the modern state of Israel. The foundation of the Jewish claim is said to be a myth born of intellectual, philosophical, and mythological traditions of the great empires of antiquity, and based on the fictions found in the Old Testament