For a great look at what archeology has to say about the OT check out The Bible Unearthed by Neil Asher Silberman and Israel Finkelstein.
It gives some good insights as to how and why the OT was put together and the motivations (political and otherwise) behind the stories.
It gives some good insights as to how and why the OT was put together and the motivations (political and otherwise) behind the stories.
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret is as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
