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[Noam Eitan <noameitan AT yahoo.com>]

This book doesn't cover all opinions, but I feel it is indispensable. It 
answered a lot of questions I had for decades and changed my understanding of 
the Bible: The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel 
and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
by Neil Asher Silberman (Author), Israel Finkelstein 

 
Regards
 
Noam Eitan from Brooklyn





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I can "second" Naomi's nomination, _The Bible Unearthed, Archaeology['s New
Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts_ by Israel
Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman (The Free Press. 2001). Another equally
important book with similar conclusions, is Profesor Burton MacDonald, _East
of the Jordan, Territories and Sites of the Hebrew Scriptures_(Boston.
American Schools of Oriental Research. 2000). Like Finkelstein and
Silberman, MacDonald concludes that the archaeological evidence suggests
that the Exodus narratives were written between 640-562 BCE, because this
the ONLY era that most of sites appearing in the narratives are in existence
at the same time and contemporary with each other. Of interest is that
MacDonald's book is on-line and "free to read by the public," its in Adobe
PDF format (with viewable text, tables, maps and illustrations) at the
following url :

http://www.asor.org/pubs/macdonald.pdf

Regards, Walter
Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld y de la Torre, M.A. Ed.
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mattfeld12 AT charter.net
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