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By Niels Peter Lemche
Of the numerous historic civilizations we're conscious of, few are smaller than the traditional country of Israel. Small either in geographical quarter and inhabitants, it used to be slightly spotted by means of the foremost civilizations of the time in Egypt, Mesopotamia and in other places, which both overlooked or overwhelmed it. but, a number of millennia later, Israel is the civilization we take into accout such a lot acutely, which we know—or imagine we know—the such a lot approximately, and which has even been revised after a way. sadly, what we know—or imagine we know—about Israel comes partially from the previous testomony and in part from fragmentary and occasionally distorted bits of historic evidence.
For those very purposes, simply because old Israel capacity quite a bit to us and since we really be aware of so little evidently, The A to Z of historical Israel is very very important. It examines the standard assets within the outdated testomony and surveys the findings of more moderen archaeological study to aid us be sure simply what occurred and...
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E. (before the common era), as this is becoming the standard term used by most modern textbooks relating to ancient Israel and the Old Testament. Preface How to Read the Old Testament Historically—How to Read This Dictionary Although small in scale, ancient Israel has received more attention than any other nation of the ancient world and for good reason as ancient Israel is believed to be the historical society described in the books of the Old Testament, a work of immense interest to most people of Western civilization.