The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, April 1st, 2006
ADAM ZERTAL, The Manasseh Hill Country Survey: Volume 1, The Shechem Syncline (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 21.1; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2004). Pp. xii + 603. $209.
Twentieth-century geographic and archaeological surveys in western Palestine concentrated primarily on Transjordan, the Negev, and the Galilee. Although these are important areas and warrant study in and of themselves, they are actually on the biblical periphery. Scholars generally agree that the origins of Israel should be sought in the central hill country, but the last few decades produced little fresh archaeolog...
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