History of Biblical Israel: Major Problems and Minor Issues From: Journal of Biblical Literature | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Burnett, Joel S | Copyright Society of Biblical Literature Winter 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

History of Biblical Israel: Major Problems and Minor Issues, by Abraham Malamat. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 7. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Pp. xv + 476. $99.00.

This collection of twenty-six articles and papers, two of which appear for the first time, represents over fifty years of research by an internationally respected scholar in the field. The focus of the volume, aptly identified as the starting point and chief source for this treatment of Israel's history, is the bibl...

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