Loading…

A Biblical History of Israel is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over a decade, A Biblical History of Israel has gathered praise and criticism for its unapologetic approach to reconstructing the historical landscape of ancient Israel through a biblical lens. In this much—anticipated second edition, the authors reassert that the Old Testament should be taken seriously as a historical document alongside other literary and archaeological sources. ...

end of the story as it has been told to this point, with a discussion and analysis of Whitelam’s arguments.5 Whitelam’s central contention is that the ancient Israel constructed by biblical scholarship on the basis primarily of the biblical texts is nothing more or less than an invention that has contributed to the silencing of real Palestinian history. All texts from the past, he argues, are “partial,” both in the sense that they do not represent the whole story and that
Page 4