"When we as scholars look at the Bible, we don't see a uniform document, but
instead we have collated traditions and documents and political ideas that come
from very different quarters. So, some of the sources in the Bible come from
really different historical periods, and some of the sources in the Bible come
from really different ideological or political schools. So, there were about
five different "maps" as it were that emerged from the Hebrew Bible. Now there
are no cartographic maps - it's all words. But there are boundary lists, which
is the ancient Hebrew way of talking about space and imagining it. So, there are
these five different maps: one of them reaches all the way to the Euphrates
River [in present-day Iraq]; one of them ends at the Jordan River; one of them
encompasses both sides of the [Jordan] River Valley; one of them is a very
constricted area around Jerusalem; and one of them is a very fluid regional
model where national groups or tribal groups aren't really so discreet, but
rather they overlap and have competing claims ..."
Full interview at: http://www.truth-out.org/why-regional-model-israelpalestine-viable-and-just/1327331351
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