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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Oversized hardcover, 990 pages, b&w photos in text, NOT ex-library. Weight 1.2kg. Good+. Faint marks on outer page edges. Interior is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show a touch of rubbing, faint dark marks, gentle creases; slightly sunned spine with a tiny nick to the upper edge. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This work offers a sweeping, archaeologically-grounded reconstruction of Palestine's history, deliberately setting aside the biblical narrative as its primary organizational framework. It traces the region's development from the earliest human settlements of the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, through the rise and fall of Bronze and Iron Age city-states, and offers a critical, minimalist re-evaluation of the biblical accounts of the Israelite and Judahite monarchies. The analysis synthesizes evidence from archaeology, epigraphy, and comparative study of other ancient Near Eastern texts to create a history from the ground up. The result is a portrait of ancient Palestine as a complex landscape of indigenous Canaanite cultures, whose material reality often stands in stark contrast to the later theological traditions of the Hebrew Bible.…

First edition hardback, no dustjacket; illustrated, 990 pages. The binding has some wear and the rear hinge is weak. There are some small stains on the endpapers. The text is clean and crisp throughout.