The Greek word ‘Deuteronomy’ means:  

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?

The Greek word ‘Pentateuch’ is another name for

Studying a literary work ‘synchronically’ means studying it

The goal of the academic approach to the Bible is to

Around 2100 BCE, a large number of Semites migrated from Mesopotamia to Canaan. This historical data supports elements in the story of: