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The Bible unearthed : archaeology's new vision of ancient Israel and the origin of its sacred texts by Finkelstein, Israel, Silberman, Neil Asher is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Is the Bible true? For the last hundred and fifty years a war has been waged over the historical reliability of the Hebrew scriptures. Recent dramatic discoveries of biblical archaeology have cast serious doubt on the familiar account of ancient Israel and the origins of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Though the Bible credits Abraham as the first human to realize there is only one God, we now know that there is no evidence for monotheism for many centuries after the reported time of Abraham. Nor is there any archaeological evidence for the Exodus, for Joshua's conquest of Canaan, or for the vast "united monarchy" of David and Solomon. In The Bible Unearthed two leading scholars, an archaeologist and a historian, combine an exhilarating tour of the field of biblical archaeology with a fascinating explanation of how and why the Bible's historical saga differs so dramatically from the archaeological finds. They explain what the Bible says about ancient Israel and show how ...

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Author
Finkelstein, Israel, Silberman, Neil Asher
Publisher
The Freee Press
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9780684869124
Category
history
Subjects
Christian, Bible, Religion
Rating
4.09 / 5 (68 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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