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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Bernard Alpert , Fran AlpertPublisher: University Press of America Imprint: Hamilton Books Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.70cm Weight: 0.177kg ISBN: 9780761858355ISBN 10: 0761858350 Pages: 110 Publication Date: 18 July 2012 Recommended Age: From 22 from 22 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Historical Time Periods according to the Bible Introduction 1. Archaeology—Biblical and Modern Archaeology 2. The Patriarchal Period 3. The Exodus—Leaving Egypt and Wandering in the Desert 4. The Emergence of the Israelite People 5. The Monarchy—Saul, David, and Solomon 6. The Divided Kingdom to the First Exile 7. The Period that Yielded the Bible—Hezekiah through Josiah 8. Redacting the Bible—The Babylonian Exile to Ezra 9. Educational Perspective—A Postscript Selected ReferencesReviews[This book] offers general readers a new and empirically based look at the relationship between archaeology and the Hebrew Bible. Written in clear and accessible language, it engages the reader in a new conversation about a very important subject. -- J. Sochen, professor emerita, Northeastern Illinois University [Their] inspired analysis ... is based upon data obtained from modern archaeological research... With evident affection and respect, the authors' critical evaluation of what really happened is a fresh, exciting, new way to study the Bible. -- Alfred Sofer, M.D. JTS trustee, professor emerita, Chicago Medical School, Maimonides scholar [The Alperts'] expertise is drawn from many years of working and guiding in archeological excavations in Israel... [This book] provides answers as well as the eternal questions with which we must wrestle. -- Betsy Dolgin Katz Ph.D The authors' clear, authoritative, and respectful discussion is in itself a gift. The final chapter, 'Educational Perspectives,' begins the important effort of addressing how religious, Biblical, and historical education needs to be reshaped for the twenty-first-century student, appropriately adjusting curriculum at all levels to the realities that modern archeology reveals... Bernard Alpert and Fran Alpert provide masterful portraits and understandings of the human condition; they set down guidelines for moral and effective human interaction; and they etch the birth struggles of a civilization. Jewish Book Council [This book] offers general readers a new and empirically based look at the relationship between archaeology and the Hebrew Bible. Written in clear and accessible language, it engages the reader in a new conversation about a very important subject. -- J. Sochen, professor emerita, Northeastern Illinois University [Their] inspired analysis ... is based upon data obtained from modern archaeological research... With evident affection and respect, the authors' critical evaluation of what really happened is a fresh, exciting, new way to study the Bible. -- Alfred Sofer, M.D. JTS trustee, professor emerita, Chicago Medical School, Maimonides scholar [The Alperts'] expertise is drawn from many years of working and guiding in archeological excavations in Israel... [This book] provides answers as well as the eternal questions with which we must wrestle. -- Betsy Dolgin Katz Ph.D [This book] offers general readers a new and empirically based look at the relationship between archaeology and the Hebrew Bible. Written in clear and accessible language, it engages the reader in a new conversation about a very important subject. -- J. Sochen, professor emerita, Northeastern Illinois University [Their] inspired analysis . . . is based upon data obtained from modern archaeological research. . . . With evident affection and respect, the authors' critical evaluation of what really happened is a fresh, exciting, new way to study the Bible. -- Alfred Sofer, M.D. JTS trustee, professor emerita, Chicago Medical School, Maimonides scholar [The Alperts'] expertise is drawn from many years of working and guiding in archeological excavations in Israel. . . . [This book] provides answers as well as the eternal questions with which we must wrestle. -- Betsy Dolgin Katz Ph.D The authors' clear, authoritative, and respectful discussion is in itself a gift. The final chapter, 'Educational Perspectives,' begins the important effort of addressing how religious, Biblical, and historical education needs to be reshaped for the twenty-first-century student, appropriately adjusting curriculum at all levels to the realities that modern archeology reveals.... Bernard Alpert and Fran Alpert provide masterful portraits and understandings of the human condition; they set down guidelines for moral and effective human interaction; and they etch the birth struggles of a civilization. * Jewish Book Council * Author InformationBernard Alpert received a B.S. in earth sciences from the University of Illinois and an M.S. in Classical archaeology from Oxford University. He has been excavating in Israel for over thirty years. He is the founding director of Archaeological Seminars Institute at Jerusalem, Israel. Fran Alpert received a B.A. in education and an M.S. in Classical archaeology from Oxford University. She is an educator, a licensed Israeli guide, and a lecturer known for her creative approach to the Land of Israel. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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