Today’s free book is The Bible and Archaeology by Frederic G. Kenyon, Director and Principal Librarian of the Librarian of the British Museum and President of the British Academy (1917-1921). This book entered the public domain on the 1st January 2023 and was scanned using the copy held in Spurgeon’s College library. Frederic George Kenyon…
Today’s free book is the 1925 Schweich Lectures by Stanley A. Cook on The Religion of Ancient Palestine in the Light of Archaeology, given at the British Academy. The volume contains 40 black and white plates. This title is in the public domain. Stanley A Cook [1873-1949], The Religion of Ancient Palestine in the Light…
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…
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie died in 1942, which means that his works published in the UK are now in the Public Domain. To celebrate this occasion the following books can now be downloaded free of charge: W.M. Flinders Petrie [1853-1942], Egypt and Israel. London: SPCK, 1922. Hbk. pp.150. W.M. Flinders Petrie [1853-1942], Palestine and…
