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Israel: Ancient Kingdom or Late Invention? is a collection of essays responding to the radical claims that Israel and its history actually began following the Babylonian exile, and that the history of Israel we read about in the Bible is a fictionalized account. Contributors are leading Bible and archaeology scholars who bring extra-biblical evidence to bear for the historicity of the Old...

If biblical archaeology (including as it should, textual and geographical study) is the primary means for reconstructing the original context of Scripture, it is fair to ask how Jews and Christians understood that context before the advent of the discipline in the late nineteenth century. Part of this history is the quest for a proper hermeneutical approach. Through the history of biblical interpretation, each interpreter must account in some way
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