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This highly acclaimed and widely used survey offers a concise, up-to-date summary of archaeological information as it pertains to the study of the Bible. The three biblical divisions of archaeology: The Old Testament Story up to 587 B.C., The Pre-Christian Centuries, and The New Testament, are supplemented with a number of charts, tables and outlines, as well as an introduction titled “Biblical...

pieces. There was no reason for them to be broken since they were protected by the walls of the tomb. Bethshan (Tell el-Husn), a town near Mount Gilboa in Israel, has been occupied almost continually since Chalcolithic times (ca. 5000–3200 B.C.). This view is from the Roman theatre. (W. S. LaSor) The most important type of covered ruin is that in which we find the remains of several towns one on top of the other. To us moderns this is strange. But in the ancient world, when a walled town was burned,
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