Further Reading on History of Israel

Here are some suggestions for digging deeper.

David M. Howard, Jr., and Michael Grisanti, eds., Giving the Sense. Understanding and Using Old Testament Historical Texts. Leicester: Apollo, 2003.

Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., A History of Israel: From the Bronze Age to the Jewish Wars. Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 1994.

V. Philip Long, The Art of Biblical History. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994.

V. Philip Long, David W. Baker, and Gordon J. Wenham, eds., Windows into Old Testament History: Evidence, Argument, and the Crisis of "Biblical Israel." Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.

Eugene H. Merrill, Kingdom of Priests: A History of Old Testament Israel. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1987.

Iain Provan, V. Philip Long, and Tremper Longman III, A Biblical History of Israel. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003. Extremely well-argued and written work, especially if you want to keep abrest of scholarship on the history of ancient Israel.

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