Ancient Israel :

Ancient Israel : from Abraham to the Roman destruction of the Temple / edited by Hershel Shanks. - 3rd ed. - Washington, DC : Upper Saddle River, NJ : Biblical Archaeology Society, Prentice Hall, c2011. - xxvii, 411 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The patriarchal age : Abraham, Isaac and Jacob / P. Kyle McCarter, Jr -- Israel in Egypt : the Egyptian sojourn and the Exodus / Nahum M. Sarna and Hershel Shanks -- The settlement in Canaan : the period of the Judges / Joseph A. Callaway and Hershel Shanks -- The united monarchy : Saul, David and Solomon / Andre Lemaire -- The divided monarchy : the kingdoms of Judah and Israel / Siegfried H. Horn and P. Kyle McCarter, Jr -- Exile and return : from the Babylonian destruction to the reconstruction of the Jewish state / Eric Meyers, with the assistance of Sean Burt -- The age of Hellenism : Alexander the Great and the rise and fall of the Hasmonean kingdom / Lee I. Levine -- Roman domination : the Jewish revolt and the destruction of the Second Temple -- Shaye J.D. Cohen.

9781935335412 (hardcover) 9781935335405 (paperback)

2010027476


Jews--History--To 70 A.D.

DS121 / .A53 2011

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