Text and Tablet

’Text and Tablet brings a logician's insights to bear on Biblical and Near Eastern traditions and on their modern interpreters. A bracing challenge to the negativity that governs much discussion, this book proposes original solutions to a wide range of problems. Significant progress has been made in recent years in archaeological general theory, logical analysis of narrative, literary study, and historical discovery. Exposure of hidden, or partial, assumptions in the Old Testament and Near East religion and archaeology leads to the need to re-interpret their own identities.’ Robert Gordon, University of Cambridge, UK '... Gibson turns his natural...ebullient curiosity on the way our historical understanding and theological approaches to Near Eastern studies have become moribund in a too thick description biased by theological assumptions found in the massive exgetic industry of textual commentaries of OT... Gibon's mind is fecund with suggestive and detailed ways to see old questions in fresh and astounding ways. This work is exceptionally important for academic and seminary collections with a focus on OT exigesis and Near Eastern Archeology. The work also addresses the philosophical issues in such interdisciplinary work.' Word Trade