Inhabiting the Promised Land: Exploring the Complex Relationship

Inhabiting the Promised LandExploring the Complex Relationship between Archaeology and Ancient Israel as Depicted in the Bible\nAuthor(s): Margreet L. Steiner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oxbow Books, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxbow Books\nISBN-13: 9781789253306, 978-1789253306\nSynopsis\nFor 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 which becomes history. However, from the 19th century at least, scholars have doubted the historical reliability of many biblical stories, and archaeological research has hardly been able to confirm their historicity.\n\nThe aim of this book is to describe the often-complicated relationship between archaeology and the Bible. It is not a book on `biblica.