A Biblical History of Israel

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A Biblical History of Israel is written by Iain William Provan and published by Westminster John Knox Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0664220908 (ISBN 10) and 9780664220907 (ISBN 13).

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three respected biblical scholars have written a history of ancient Israel that takes the biblical text seriously as an historical document.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 authors do so within the context and paradigm of the Old Testament canon, which is held as the primary document for reconstructing Israel's history. In Part One, the authors set the volume in context and review past and current scholarly debate about learning Israel's history, negating arguments against using the Bible as the central source. In Part Two, they seek to retell the history itself with an eye to all the factors explored in Part One.