Article One of the first attempts to argue for an earlier date of the composition for CT was made by Jacob Bamberger, who related it to the fourth century on the basis of its supposed indebtedness to the Jewish Adam-literature and origins in the “Ephrem’s school”.7 Later on, Albrecht Götze, the first scholar who undertook…

Article As to its content, CT essentially presents a re-reading of Old Testament history with a focus on pre-diluvian times and an emphasis on genealogical tables leading in an uninterrupted path from Adam to Jesus. Its author makes use of a variety of sources of mostly Christian provenance which are strung together in the well-known…

Praehistorische Zeitschrift – The Praehistorische Zeitschrift is regarded as one of the most renowned German publications in the area of Prehistory and Ancient History. In keeping with its traditional mission, it presents detailed accounts of the most recent research conducted in Europe. The geographical emphasis is placed on Eastern, South-Eastern and Northern Central Europe. A…

Table 6.1 lists most of the scientific techniques used in archaeology and Quaternary geology, and a guide to some of the relevant literature. The definition of time used by physicists—for example: ‘The arbitrary choice of a repeatable phenomenon that may be used in the definition of a clock. The choice of the fundamental clock is…

Article There were recent debates concerning the validity of the historical-critical method (See, e.  g., Adele Reinhartz, »The Hermeneutics of Chutzpah: A Disquisition on the Value/s of ›Critical Investigation of the Bible,‹« JBL 140/1 (2021) 8–30; Wongi Park, »Multiracial Biblical Studies,« JBL 140/3 (2021) 435–459; Paul Michael Kurtz, »A Historical, Critical Retrospective on Historical Criticism,« in…