Lemche Review of Adler

[Russell Gmirkin]

For those interested, Yonatan Adler just posted a downloadable review of his book by reviewer Niels Peter Lemche in SJOT here:

https://www.academia.edu/108750459/Niel ... 23_338_340

[StephenGoranson]

Notice that Niels [not Nils, a typo in the above post] Peter Lemche in that review misstated the very title of the book that he was reviewing in Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, where he is Editor-in-Chief.

The real title is Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal
but Lemche sloppily projected into it as
Origins of Judaism: An Anthropological-Historical Reappraisal.

In any case, what we may now recognize as "Judaism" could have developed quite long after the books of Torah were written.

[billd89]

In any case, what we may now recognize as "Judaism" could have developed quite long after the books of Torah were written.

Just this morning, in a used bookshop on the LES, I was thumbing through a grotty copy of Norman Gottwald's 1979 The Tribes of Yahweh: A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel, 1250-1050 B.C.E.. And that date sounds implausibly early, to me.

[Russell Gmirkin]

According to Jim West, Associate Editor at SJOT, posting on Academia.edu (not that it matters): "Totally my fault on the title thing. I didn't even notice it when I read the proof. Skipped right to the body of the text. I apologize."

Of course, Jim--decent guy--may have been falling on his sword.

SJOT also misprinted an article title of mine as "Tool Slippages (sic) and the Tel Dan Inscription" SJOT 16 (2002): 293-302, but I didn't sweat it. Can't tell you how many times my name has been mangled!