Digging into the debate on whether the Land of Israel was emptied at the end of the Iron Age in the 6th century BCE when Babylon destroyed the urban centers of Judah, Faust (land of Israel studies and
Offers an "anthropologically-oriented" perspective to the discussion of Israel's ethnogenesis. This book traces Israel's emergence in Canaan, and the complex processes of ethnic negotiations and re-ne
Faust (Institute of Archaeology, Bar-Ilan U., Israel) aims to identify the ethnogenesis of the ancient Israelites in Canaan within the context of Iron Age archaeology. W.G. Dever's "New Biblical Archa
The connection between archaeology and the Bible was forged by the discoveries of the nineteenth century, and archaeological finds became the primary catalyst for changes in biblical studies throughou
