Full name: David and Solomon: in search of the Bible's sacred kings and the roots of the Western tradition

Authors: Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Religion, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780743243636 0743243633

There has been an explosion of recent discoveries in biblical archaeology. These finds have shed powerful light on figures and stories from the Bible -- and completely changed what we know about some of its most famous characters. The reputations of the first great kings, David and Solomon, evolved over hundreds of years. In David and Solomon, leading archaeologists Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman focus on the two great leaders as a window into the entire biblical era. David and Solomon covers one thousand years of ancient civilization, separating fact from legend and proving that the roots of the western tradition lie very deep. Similar books: From Eden to Exile by Eric H. Cline Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? by William G. Dever No god but God by Reza Aslan 1453 by Roger Crowley Caesar and Christ by Will Durant Servants of Allah by Sylviane A. Diouf The Wonder That Was India by A. L. Basham Memories of Muhammad by Omid Safi The First 2,000 Years by W. Cleon Skousen Inside Scientology by Janet Reitman When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone by Gal Beckerman The Stations of the Sun by Ronald Hutton The Third Thousand Years by W. Cleon Skousen The First Crusade by Thomas Asbridge Approaching the Qur'an by Michael Sells Belonging by Simon Schama Magic in the Middle Ages by Richard Kieckhefer The Night Battles by Carlo Ginzburg A Religious History of the American People by S. E. Ahlstrom In the Shadow of the Sword by Tom Holland