Edited by Hershel Shanks
"What other books do for the Bible as literature, this book does for the Bible as history."
Dr. William W. Hallo
Yale University
The most widely used account of the history of ancient Israel.
This volume takes the reader through the Bible as history, analyzing the Biblical text and testing individual Biblical passages against the evidence of extra-Biblical sources and archaeological finds.
Chapters and Authors
The Patriarchal Age
P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. and revised by Ronald S. Hendel
Israel in Egypt
Nahum M. Sarna and revised by Hershel Shanks
The Settlement in Canaan
Joseph A. Callaway and revised by J. Maxwell Miller
The United Monarchy
written and revised by Andre Lemaire
The Divided Monarchy
Siegfried H. Horn and revised by P. Kyle McCarter, Jr.
Exile and Return
James D. Purvis and revised by Eric M. Meyers
The Age of Hellenism
written and revised by Lee I.A. Levine
Roman Domination
Shaye J.D. Cohen and revised by Michael Satlow
380 pages, 34 illustrations,
17 maps & charts, 10 color plates, Softcover.
ISBN 978-1-880317-54-9
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