Product Description: The author responds to criticism against his prior publications on Jerusalem and Nehemiah's wall and the List of Returnees in Ezra and Nehemiah. Those summaries are provided, noting the size of Persian period Jerusalem, the lack of archaeological evidence for identifying a city wall in Nehemiah's period, that details in Nehemiah describe the construction of the First Wall in the Hasmonean period, and that some attributions in the List of Returnees were probably written in the second century...read more

Product Description: Three decades of dialogue, discussion, and debate within the interrelated disciplines of Syro-Palestinian archaeology, Israelite history, and Hebrew Bible on the question of the reliability of the biblical account of Israel's history have made a balanced articulation of the issues and their resolution a desideratum...read more

The co-authors of The Bible Unearthed draw on recent archaeological findings to illuminate the origins of modern civilization as reflected by the reigns of two ancient biblical kings, identifying mythical and factual elements attributed to their characters and chronicling how their stories represent Jewish faith. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

A radical new theory about the origins of the Old Testament challenges traditional notions about ancient Israel, such as the power of David and Solomon and the historicity of the Exodus story.

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