Today’s free book is C.J. Ball‘s Light from the East, or the Witness of the Monuments. An Introduction to the Study of Biblical Archaeology. As you would expect, some of the author’s conclusions, such as his identification of Amraphel, King of Shinar of Genesis 14:1 with Hammurabi the sixth Amorite king of the Old Babylonian…
Today’s free book is an introduction to Bible geography, by Claude Conder, who applies knowledge gained through his work with Palestine Exploration Fund in Israel. My thanks to Book Aid for providing a copy of this public domain title for digitisation. Claude Reignier Conder, R.E. [1848-1910], A Primer of Bible Geography Founded on the Latest…
Professor Archibald Sayce’s Patriarchal Palestine applies the (then) recent archaeological discoveries in Babylonia and Assyria to illustrate the biblical accounts of Genesis. The frontispiece map is particularly helpful, so I have extracted this and made is available as a separate download at various resolutions. This title, kindly provided by Book Aid, is in the public…
Both my wife and I remember reading John Bimson’s groundbreaking book Redating the Exodus and Conquest when we were studying theology. So I was delighted when Dr Bimson granted me permission to make his book freely available on-line. I hope that a new generation of Bible students will find it as helpful as we did….
