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The history of the world and of the people of Israel as found in the biblical books Genesis-2 Kings, often designated as the Primary History, which runs from Creation until the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple of Solomon at the hand of the Babylonians and the end of the independence of the kingdom of Judah, appears to have been meant as a literary emulation of the Greek-language Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus (completed around 440 BCE), which describes the conflict between Greeks and Persians in the decade 490-480 BCE. <b>I described the evidence for this thesis and its consequences for the study of the Primary History at some length in my The Origin of the History of Israel: Herodotusâ Histories as Blueprint for the First Books of the Bible </b>(Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002).<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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The history of the world and of the people of Israel as found in the biblical books Genesis-2 Kings, often designated as the Primary History, which runs from Creation until the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple of Solomon at the hand of the Babylonians and the end of the independence of the kingdom of Judah, appears to have been meant as a literary emulation of the Greek-language Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus (completed around 440 BCE), which describes the conflict between Greeks and Persians in the decade 490-480 BCE. <b>I described the evidence for this thesis and its consequences for the study of the Primary History at some length in my The Origin of the History of Israel: Herodotusâ Histories as Blueprint for the First Books of the Bible </b>(Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002).<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->