IS THE BIBLE MYTHOLOGICAL LITERATURE OR A HISTORICAL SOURCE?

Marián FEĎO

broker, BeMi real estate agency, Hodálova 3 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia, fedomarian@gmail.com, 00421918261933

Abstract

The Bible is one of the most important ancient historical sources, which for centuries served to complete the picture of ancient thinking, ethics, morality, spirituality, or political history of biblical Israel or other surrounding nations. Nations with which biblical Israel came into contact. Nations that influenced it and it influenced them. Ancient nations are an inseparable part of biblical history. Their mythology, cosmology, or general philosophy of being are authentic in many elements. The common path is very strongly noticeable. For centuries, the history of biblical Israel ceased to be studied, as the history of the ancient world gradually began to be forgotten. The ancient world was better known to ancient historians than to the culture of the Middle Ages. Thanks to the newly emerging scientific discipline of the modern age, archaeology, antiquity began to awaken from the sand under which it had been shrouded for centuries. This scientific discipline confirmed that the Bible is not only a mythological literature of antiquity, but also a historical source that also helped to uncover the cities of antiquity. Biblical cities.

Keywords

Bible, demythologizing, history, Biblical Israel, theology, historical sources, archaeology

SUMMARY

The Bible is not just a book with mythological spiritual content. It is a summary of human prehistory. God's history, God's interventions in people's lives. Interventions that were predicted by biblical prophets. Interventions that were recorded by historians. To this day, biblical texts are confronted or confirmed by archaeological and historical descriptions. Because these biblical texts simply have their own enormous weight.

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