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Biblical History and Israel’s Past: The Changing Study of the Bible and History is unavailable, but you can change that!

Although scholars have studied ancient Israel for centuries, their purpose has for much of that time been primarily to illuminate and clarify the biblical story. In Biblical History and Israel’s Past Megan Bishop Moore and Brad E. Kelle describe how scholars have increasingly begun in recent years to tell the story of ancient Israel and its neighbors on its own terms, using both biblical and...

Bible. Ultimately, however, this conviction placed a considerable burden on archaeology that it was unable to bear. The most notable example of the inadequacy of Albright’s approach is the Albright school’s belief that Hebrew tribes leaving Egypt conquered Canaan, as reported primarily in the book of Joshua. Albright and his students recognized that archaeology did not agree with the Joshua account in many aspects, but they held on to the essential historicity of the account by finessing certain
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