This website will contain additional materials containing background information for this course. All of these are PDF files.

• Course outline
• Reading list of relevant material

The following are very useful for course

• Historical timeline
• Development of the documentary hypothesis (2 pages)
• Documentary hypothesis overview (7 pages)
• Review of Callahan's book (2 pages)
• Interview with Israel Finkelstein (16 pages)
• Parting seas, magic stars, and miracles by Bruce Wildish (6 pages)

The following are relevant but not as crucial for reading

• Bible inconsistenices -- A list of over 700 citations in the Bible (Old and New Testament) that seem inconsistent or impossible (from www.skepticsannotatedbible.com)

Humor: The following items are humorous topics related to the Bible:

• Why God never received tenure
• An alternative view of creation and the garden of Eden
• Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain