A Biblical History of Israel, Second Edition

Audiobook saved my bacon. Ain’t no way I would have finished reading this on my own. Helpful sections, but a snooze fest overall. Also, if I listened to this book, can I even count it as “read” if I didn’t look at one word of the book?......more

Iain Provan, V. Philips Long, and Tremper Longman, well-respected scholars all, have extensively updated this book for its second edition. Apparently, the first edition raised the dander of the extreme left side of scholarship. There’s even an appendix that you might want to read first called “In Pr......more

A bit dense, and some of the chapters are better than others, but overall the historical presentation was good and sensitive to the available historical evidence. In particular, the conversation in part one concerning historiography and epistemology is certainly worth reading.......more

An interesting and thought-provoking book in the arena of both the modernist disdain for the reliability of the biblical texts as a source for doing history, and the postmodern skepticism to the possibility of reaching/revisiting the past. For many people, the first chapters seem quite long and tedi......more

Read as part of required reading for a Graduate level Scripture course at the Augustine institute. Admittedly, there was a sizeable chapter on archaeological methodology that was not required, and that I therefore did not read, but the real meat of this book is the second part where they go systemat......more