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Why Shouldn T Ancient Texts Be Considered Sacred?
The reading “The creation of history in ancient Israel” by Marc Zvi Brettler is about history, ancient texts, ideology and literature. There are several ways of defining the words ideology, history and literature. As mentioned in the article history can be designed to record events of the past as they actually occurred. Nevertheless, Collingwood believed that biblical texts shouldn’t be considered history. I believe that ancient texts are significantly important and that they should be considered as history due to the fact that texts are considered sacred. As a matter of fact to determine if a text has history or not, depends on the author’s relationship towards the text and the relationship to the evidence. The author is presenting a lot

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