Publisher's Synopsis
There was probably only one past, but there are many different histories. As mental representations of narrow segments of the past, histories reflect different cultural contexts and different historians, although history is a scientific enterprise whenever it processes representative data using rational and controllable methods to work out hypotheses that can be falsified by empirical evidence.' A History of Biblical Israel' combines experience gained through decades of teaching biblical exegesis and courses on the history of ancient Israel, and of on-going involvement in biblical archaeology.
