it is ideology parading as scholarship; it is the work of a dilettante who is not an archeologist, never visited a dig, reads no Hebrew, and used anonymous sources and anecdotal evidence as the foundation of her research to craft what Haaretz columnist Nadav Shragai called a tissue of lies about Israeli archeologists Her book sounds like NAZI and commie propaganda writ large and rubber stamped by the liberal pin-head establishment. How can one write fiction for a thesis and submit it in good faith? The educational establishment is broken beyond repair.