The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.
Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.
The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history.
Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.
The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct.
I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
The Bible is a history book.