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Thomas L. Thompson (born January 7, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan) is a biblical scholar and theologian. He was professor of theology at the University of Copenhagen from 1993 to 2009, lives in Denmark and is now a Danish citizen.

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The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel. . . is a reflection of no sociopolitical entity of the historical state of Israel of the Assyrian period

Benei, Biblical, Essence, Linguistic, Reality, Reflection

We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past. . . . The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction. . . Not only have Adam and Eve and the flood story passed over to mythology, but we can no longer talk about a time of the patriarchs. There never was a "United Monarchy" in history and it is meaningless to speak of pre-exilic prophets and their writings. . . The Bible deals with the origin traditions of a people who never existed as such

Bible, Literary, Mythology, Past, United, Writing

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