To describe a story as a ‘legend’, in the scholarly sense of that term, is to assert that it is a story about human beings of the distant past, presented as an historical narrative.

The deity in the first creation story (Gen. 1) is very powerful and majestic. This suggests it was written by

The fact that the Merneptah Stele refers to Israel by name as a Canaanite enemy of Egypt suggests that, by the time of Pharaoh Merneptah, Israel was a large enough group of people to be militarily significant.

The Merneptah Stele suggests a date for the Exodus in roughly:

Which is characteristic of the devotional approach to the Bible?

Who was not one of Israel’s patriarchs?

To describe a story as a ‘myth’, in the scholarly sense of that term, is to assert that the story is purely fictional.

Which is not one of the sources posited by the Documentary Hypothesis?

Jael kills the Canaanite general Sisera by:

Joshua sends spies to Jericho, who spend the night: