Posted on 02/28/2006 6:41:13 AM PST by truthfinder9
This is an excellent book that is both a detailed military history and a historical apologetics book. The authors' foundational point is that the military campaigns of the OT are so detailed that they couldn't have been fabricated and are not fables like some skeptics and liberal scholars would like us to believe.
The authors do an incredible job at drawing out details from the English and Hebrew texts. This coupled with their own knowledge and experience in warfare, they paint a detailed picture of the Israeli campaigns. They also make many comparisons to later battles, leaders and campaigns in military history. So if your interests lie in military history, ancient history, archaeology or historical apologetics, this book covers all of those fields.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
In Battles of the Bible the authors Chaim Herzog, former President of the State of Israel, and Mordechai Gichon, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, present a comprehensive work on the wars of ancient Israel. Both authors have seen extensive military service in much the same areas as featured in the biblical accounts. The Bible's military accounts, told in vivid detail, cover a vast period, from the invasion of Canaan by the Israelites under Joshua's command, through the conquest of the kingdom by David and Solomon and the split of the kingdom into Judah and Israel, to the Maccabees' successful rebellion against Seleucid domination. The reliability of these accounts is supported by their technical accuracy and by descriptions of topographic conditions peculiar to specific battlefields. They bear comparison with military campaigns well after the biblical era, and provide strategic and tactical lessons of value even today. They are also an essential key to understanding the events of the time, when the struggle for independence and survival overshadowed all other aspects of daily life. National identity and security remains a vital issue in the region today, and many of the places that figure in the biblical accounts still retain their military importance.
I got a book where the handling was more than that book LOL
Book $.01 S&H S3.49 Just wild!:)
That is fun...I do it too!
That's more like it. There hasn't been nearly enough in the way of that vaunted self-correction in science regarding Middle Eastern chronology, and that grows out of a need to undermine the Bible (and of course, to bash the Jews along the line whenever possible).
I've done that, too!
They sure won't make much money off ME!
LOL!
Bookshelves are like shoes: You can never have too many of them. ;o]
Sometimes, though, one ends up needing a larger house to store either the bookcases or the shoes...
I just get rid of something else that's not quite so important!...;o]
That's the problem! Is my book on the Battle of Seven Pines worth keeping, or my history of shoes? Or will my book on sewing tips be the one to go?
Sometimes, there's just no way to choose. Don't think hubby will let me get rid of the bed to put in more bookshelves, though....
Get a Murphy bed...tuck it into the wall and in the daytime, slide the bookcase on casters in front of it...no one will ever know...;o]
LOL!
When I move, I have more boxes of books than anything else. I can't bear to give them up, even though I've read them all at least once.
*sigh* (I should have been a librarian.)
I am quite sympathetic. I have thousands of books and we are looking to move. We will be empty nesters, so I've insisted that we find a house where I can have a library. A big one. My husband (a professor BTW) just shakes his head and does his best to humor me. I'm one of the only non-librarians where I work. All of us love books, but I probably own the most. I'm a tight-wad in general. Except when I'm in the presence of books. Then my wallet just falls open.
And you're different how?
I can resist anything but the temptation to buy more books. And if I don't have a bookcase handy, I'll use any flat surface until I can GET a bookcase!
Books are crammed into every space underneath my bed. I hurt my knee last month and just had surgery. So I've been home in bed (back to work now though) and could read. (It was the only good part about this whole thing.) But I've had trouble getting out of bed because I have a hard time finding a place where both feet and crutches will fit. This is after I've boxed most of my books and put them into storage. It's killing me because there's been books I've wanted to use as references and I can't get to them. I just found an old gift card I forgot about for Barnes & Noble and I've been online all morning to see how I could get the most books for $25. I just found a line that they've republished and are rather inexpensive. It's time to order. And I just got an email from Dover about a sale there. Hubby just got paid today... I keep telling him he got me, so all in all, he got a good deal. LOL!!
I don't even dare to go to Dover. It's got too many neat things, and if I can't buy what I want, I'll go into withdrawal... ;o]
I now know I should have been a librarian, too. At least I'm getting to play at being a library technician!
I'm afraid I go into overload if I worked in a library, now.
For me, it's like knitting, sometimes tedious, but relaxing. I'm not dealing with customers, so that's one thing going for me. I'm just working on cataloging or cleaning up records.
This should be required reading for all those idiots who say God wouldn't condone war so he isn't on our side. God told Saul to "utterly destroy" the Amalekites.
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