Michael j mazarr biography of abraham
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The war in Iraq has cost the United States trillions of dollars and thousands of lives. Michael J. Mazarr explores the decision-making and narratives that shaped America's march to war in 2003 only to reveal disagreement among the principle policy makers about how the decision was actually made.
Episode Duration: 27 minutes and 10 seconds
Episode Number: 219
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Historical Plausibility: The Historicity of the Book of Abraham as a Case Study
John Gee and Stephen D. Ricks
John Gee and Stephen D. Ricks, “Historical Plausibility: The Historicity of the Book of Abraham as a Case Study,” in Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001), 63–98.
John Gee was an assistant research professor of Egyptology, and Stephen D. Ricks was a professor of Hebrew at Brigham Young University when this was published.
In attempting to prove the historicity of any document or event, historians should use primary sources. For the historian of the ancient world, however, these sources are often both rare and obscure. By comparing a text with other texts and archaeological material from the same time and place, a historian can propose the historical plausibility of a document when its authenticity is not certain. In order to establish the Book of
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John Gee, “The Wanderings of Abraham,” in From Creation to Sinai: The Old Testament through the Lens of the Restoration, ed. Daniel L. Belnap and Aaron P. Schade (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book), 251‒78.
While Pierce and Muhlestein surveyed the general historical context of the patriarchal narratives, setting the stage for the Israelites and their interactions within the greater ancient Near Eastern setting, John Gee focuses instead on the immediate historical settings in the narrative of Abraham. From Ur to Canaan to Egypt to Moriah, Abraham’s life was one of the nomad, and that is reflected in the texts describing his life. —DB and AS
Abraham was a real person who lived in and traveled between real places. He lived, however, so long ago that the world he lived in is completely foreign to most of those who live now, almost four millennia later. Both Abraham and his world seem unreal to us. Understanding