The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel

The Middle East Journal | January 1, 2000| | Copyright

The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel, by Thomas L. Thompson. London and New York: Basic Books, 1999. xix + 412 pages. $30.

The thesis of this widely acclaimed book by Professor Thomas Thompson may be paraphrased as follows. Until not long ago, the biblical account of the history of Israel was accepted because no other history of ancient Palestine was available. During the past 50 years, however, archaeological and linguistic studies have succeeded in establishing the broad lines of a history of ancient Palestine that is unmarred by biblical prejudice. In this ...

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