Brill Academic Publishers , 2001. — 492 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 7). The history of Israel of the Bible remains one of the most hotly contested issues in scholarship of the Hebrew Bible today. One of the clearest voices in the debate is that of Abraham Malamat. In the pages Malamat distills years of writing on the history of Israel from its beginnings...
Carta Jerusalem, 1996. — 144 p. Professor Bahat has written an exceptional work on Jerusalem. The illustrations are clear, the maps are detailed and easily understood. The narrative is sufficiently detailed to satisfy the scholar, yet written in a manner that any reader who has a serious interest in Jerusalem's history can understand. Rabbi Michael A Myers Dean Hebrew...
4th edition. — Westminster: John Knox Press, 2000. — 481 p. Unsurpassed for nearly half a century, and now with a new introduction and appendix by William P. Brown, John Bright's A History of Israel will continue to be a standard for a new generation of students of the Old Testament. This book remains a classic in the literature of theological education.
Brill, 2011. — 423 p. — (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 29). The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah brings together an interdisciplinary and broad-ranging international community of scholars to discuss aspects of the history and continued life of the Jerusalem Temple in Western culture, from biblical times to the present. This volume is the fruit of the...
Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2008. — 256 p. — (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 491). For more than a decade the European Seminar in Historical Methodology has debated the history of ancient Israel (or Palestine or the Southern Levant, as some prefer). A number of different topics have been the focus of discussion and published collections, but several have centered on...
Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2010. — 274 p. — (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 521). Israel in Transition 2 is the second in a two-volume work addressing some of the historical problems relating to the early history of Israel, from its first mention around 1200 BCE to the beginnings of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. During this four century transition period Israel...
Brill, 2000. — 360 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 2). A strong Egyptian presence and governance of 13th and 12th centuries B.C. Palestine has since long become clear from both textual and archaeological evidence. How this Egyptianization came about in Ramesside Palestine forms the focus of the present study. Carolyn Higginbotham convincingly attends to...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 416 p. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--and relates the familiar stories of the sacred texts with the fruits of modern scholarship. Beginning with the origins of the people who became the Israel of the Bible, it follows the course of the ensuing...
B&H Academic, 2017. — 1505 p. This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of ancient Israel—from the creation account to setting the stage for the New Testament era. This edition has been thoroughly revised, but maintains its focus on Old Testament texts as well as ancient Near Eastern literary and archeological sources to highlight the important modern...
B&H Academic, 2017. — 1505 p. This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of ancient Israel—from the creation account to setting the stage for the New Testament era. This edition has been thoroughly revised, but maintains its focus on Old Testament texts as well as ancient Near Eastern literary and archeological sources to highlight the important modern...
Jewish Publication Society, 2002. — 486 p. Jerusalem in the Second Temple period experienced dramatic growth as it achieved unprecedented political, religious, and spiritual prominence. Lee Levine traces the development of Jerusalem during this time—through its urban, demographic, topographical, and archaeological features, its political regimes, public institutions, and its...
Archaeopress, 2003. — 165 p. — (BAR International Series 1121). Israel is, and always has been, a geographical, historical and most importantly cultural crossroads, linking three continents, three of the great ancient religions, and thousands of years of history and culture. Archaeology in this region has always beeninterested in urban areas, in ancient sites such as Jerusalem,...
Westminster: John Knox Press, 2003. — 426 p. In this much-anticipated textbook, three respected biblical scholars have written a history of ancient Israel that takes the biblical text seriously as an historical document. While also considering nonbiblical sources and being attentive to what disciplines like archaeology, anthropology, and sociology suggest about the past, the...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 193 p. For many people it is clear: the actions and beliefs of Ancient Israel are described in the Bible. The stories about its peoples and kings, struggles and wars, deities and shrines, are supposed to have been told and retold throughout the ages and recorded in ancient archives. At a certain moment in time these stories have been assembled in the Bible...