The book of Heresy
A book by Yehoshua Etzion
PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS OF THIS PAGE: God
as real being; The existence of God; The nature of God; Responses of archaeologists
REVIEW
by
Dr. Adam Zartal
HA’ARETZ,
LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, 19.4.2000
(An extract translated from Hebrew)
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“The
Book of Heresy” is a collection of diverse ideas that almost completely
ignore the two accepted methods in biblical research: the religious-halachic,
and the scientific-historical-archaeological... [Etzion] perceives God
[as an entity] in our image, after our likeness, of [evil and good] inclinations
and of human weakness... In fact, Etzion goes back to the theory suggested
by Erich von Daniken... but Etzion is even more daring. He conceives the
gods as real beings whose deeds can be traced and associated with the biblical
traditions... A priori, this kind of approach cannot be dismissed. There
is always a possibility that some real evidence will turn up one day [to
support it] and that ancient history will indeed become explainable by
such a method, but this time has not come yet.
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