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A History of Ancient Israel and Judah, Second Edition Paperback – Illustrated, October 1, 2006

by J. Maxwell Miller (Author), John H. Hayes (Author)
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This classic textbook, widely used for over two decades, constructs a history of ancient Israel and Judah through a thorough investigation of epigraphical, archaeological, and biblical sources. Approaching biblical history as history, Miller and Hayes examine the political and economic factors that give context to the Israelite monarchy's actions and the biblical writers' accounts. Now updated with the latest research and critical discoveries, including the Tel Dan Inscription, and considering the lively debate surrounding the reliability of biblical accounts, Miller and Hayes's judicious and even-handed portrayal gives detailed attention to the nature, strengths, and limitations of various forms of evidence for understanding Israel's origins and early history. The new edition also includes thirty-four new maps, helpful notes, and numerous charts and photographs.

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J. Maxwell Miller is Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, in Atlanta, Goergia.

John H. Hayes is Professor Emeritusof Old Testament at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the author of numerous books, including Introduction to the Bible, Biblical Exegesis: A Beginner's Handbook (with Carl Holladay), The Jewish People in Classical Antiquity (with Sara Mandell), and Old Testament Theology: Its History and Development (with Frederick Prussner), all published by WJK.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Westminster John Knox Press; 2nd edition (October 1, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 584 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0664223583
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0664223588
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 year and up
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1390L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1.5 x 8.75 inches
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    Dr. James Maxwell Miller is Professor Emeritus of the Candler School of Theology of Emory University. After retiring from Emory in 1999 he spent ten years as archaeologist on the staff of Fernbank Museum of Natural History. Among biblical scholars he is best known for books and articles on ancient Israelite history. Among his books are The Old Testament and the Historian (1976), Israelite and Judean History (1977), and A History of Ancient Israel and Judah (1986; 2 nd ed., 2006), the last two co-edited and co-authored respectively with his Candler colleague John Hayes. Among archaeologists Dr. Miller is better known for directing an archaeological survey of the region of ancient Moab (in present-day Jordan). The results of this survey, conducted between 1978 and 1983, are published as Archaeological Survey of the Kerak Plateau (1991).

    From 1980 through 2014, Dr. Miller directed an annual Middle East Travel-Seminar. Through this METS program he introduced Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt. Israel and Greece to more than a thousand seminary students and lay people. From 2007 through 2019 he served as consultant to the Macedonian Ministry Foundation and directed its Holy Land Pilgrimage program for mid-career pastors.

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Kurt VanderMolen
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant work
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2023
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This is the best you can hope for of ancient Israel. These scholars take you down an authentic path, free of evangelical bs.
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John Petty
5.0 out of 5 stars Best history of Israel and Judah currently available
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2022
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Draws obvious conclusions from archaeological research, correctly interprets source information, and is well-informed on the history of the period
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Andrew
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent writing and big picture with discussion of relevant detail
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2018
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Interesting approach. Readable with a different method than some of the other authors on this topic. See Provan, Long, and Longman III (which is one of my favorite.
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ori
4.0 out of 5 stars beware - small type
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2017
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This is a wonderful resource. But the print is really too small for anyone over 40. Would be nice if future reprints enlarged the font. Bought it for my dad and he can't use it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2017
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Great book. It's well-written and very informative. If you're interested in ANE history, in general, or want a broader understanding of the historical context of the Bible, I'd highly recommend it
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DEO
5.0 out of 5 stars I highly recommend!!
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2017
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A very well-written book. I highly recommend!!!
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yvonne i camacho
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2015
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Great book for learning about biblical Israel
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Dr. Thomas Ryba
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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Exactly as expected
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foxontherun
5.0 out of 5 stars Best such history available for serious students--fundamentalists will hate it
Reviewed in Canada on July 17, 2022
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My first class in biblical and ancient near-east studies was 1980, with Dr Baruch Halpern, a scholar of some note. He used the 1st edition of Miller-Hayes as his main textbook. It was a great book, but then the new discoveries at Ugarit, Ebla, etc., were just being made and digested. We had to deal with these in separate books, and papers. The 2nd edition has incorporated these, and their implications, into the main text. There are many other additions and improvements that make the 2nd edition even better than the 1st edition in truly significant ways.

If your reason for reading a history of ancient Israel and Judah is to cement your certainty that the bible is the literal word of God, and the “history” it contains is an accurate account of the way it really was, you will absolutely hate this book. If, however, you are open to the best scholarship on the subject, you have found it in Miller-Hayes.

Oh, to alert you to how even-handed and how seriously scholarly this book is--unbiased by religious fanaticism--and perhaps to make you smile—check out the negative reviews here. Listen to their howls of outrage.
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5.0 out of 5 stars As described
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2019
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The product and delivery as described.
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Chiparos
5.0 out of 5 stars A good book, a good knowledge
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 13, 2014
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The Book arrived in good condition and its very important subject almost entirely lacking in publications in Romanian.
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Mr. Steven C. Watson
1.0 out of 5 stars More Apologetics masquerading as History
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2013
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All you need know is the authors' think the books of the Tanakh, the Old Testament, are history and not prescientific religous literature. There may be history to be recovered from these books, but they have been re-worked, re-edited and re-written that often as to be unreliable without external evidence. and if we have independent external evidence, we do not need them. Can we please shunt the Bible onto the Science Fiction and Fantasy shelves, where it cannot corrrupt human knowledge any longer? Can we please stop obsessing about a couple of thousand square miles of the Earth and less than a fifth of a percercent of it's population?

As history this book is dreck.
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