Abstract
M.A.
Condemnation (by various biblical writers) of certain practices
found among st the Israelites which led ultimately to the Exile
have often been viewed from two opposite views. The believer in
the Bible simply accepted the condemnation at face value, and
without question, whereas the scholar sought to explain it in
terms of extra-biblical knowledge of the history of other
civilisations which often threw doubt on the accuracy and
veracity of the biblical record. This mini-dissertation seeks
to show that it is possible to accept the viability of the
biblical account in terms of the extra-biblical sources.