Here, at last, two of archaeology's leading scholars shed new light on how the Bible came into existence. They assert, for example, that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob never existed, that David and Solomon were not great kings but obscure chieftains, and that the Exodus never happened. They offer instead a new historical truth: the Bible was created by the people of the small, southern nation of Judah in a heroic last-ditch attempt to keep their faith alive after the demise of the larger, wealthier nation of Israel to the north. It is in this truth, not in the myths of the past, that the real value of the Bible is evident. The circumstanc

The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacred Texts
by Finkelstein, Israel; Silberman, Neil AsherRent Book
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Table of Contents
Prologue: In the Days of King Josiah | 1 | (3) | |||
Introduction: Archaeology and the Bible | 4 | (23) | |||
PART ONE The Bible as History? | |||||
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27 | (21) | |||
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48 | (24) | |||
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72 | (25) | |||
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97 | (26) | |||
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123 | (26) | |||
PART TWO The Rise and Fall of Ancient Israel | |||||
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149 | (20) | |||
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169 | (27) | |||
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196 | (33) | |||
PART THREE Judah and the Making of Biblical History | |||||
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229 | (22) | |||
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251 | (24) | |||
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275 | (21) | |||
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296 | (19) | |||
Epilogue: The Future of Biblical Israel | 315 | (4) | |||
Appendix A: Theories of the Historicity of the Patriarchal Age | 319 | (7) | |||
Appendix B: Searching for Sinai | 326 | (3) | |||
Appendix C: Alternative Theories of the Israelite Conquest | 329 | (11) | |||
Appendix D: Why the Traditional Archaeology of the Davidic and Solomonic Period Is Wrong | 340 | (5) | |||
Appendix E: Identifying the Era of Manasseh in the Archaeological Record | 345 | (2) | |||
Appendix F: How Vast Was the Kingdom of Josiah? | 347 | (7) | |||
Appendix G: The Boundaries of the Province of Yehud | 354 | (2) | |||
Bibliography | 356 | (17) | |||
Index | 373 |
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