Liberty University

THE BIBLE
AMONG THE MYTHS

A Book Summary Submitted to Dr. Daniel Warner in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for
The Course OBST 510

Liberty University Baptist Theological Seminary

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Sunday September 20th, 2015
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter1--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2

Chapter 2 3
Chapter 3 4
Chapter 4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6
Chapter 5 7
Chapter 6 8
Chapter 7 10
Chapter 8 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11
Chapter 9 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12
Chapter 10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14

The Bible Among the Myths: Unique Revelation or Just Ancient Literature?. By John N. Oswalt. Grande Rapides, MI: Zondervan, 2009.
Introduction
Oswalt begins by discussing the origins of this book. How that at the close of the Second World War people had begun to re-evaluate some of their long held beliefs. As Oswalt would have said their paradigms began to shift. As this shift began people such as Albright and his students say a major difference between Jewish religion and the other religions of the ANE. As time passed this pendulum began to swing in the other direction, scholars no longer found the major difference in the religions but began to view them as variation on the other major religions found in the ANE. Judaism was only a few steps down the evolutionary ladder from the other religions of the ANE.
As scholars began to look at the religion of the ancient Israelites, they found concepts that were troubling to them in the light