Side-Lights from the Mound of Gezer – R A S Macalister

Today’s free book is R A Stewart Maclister’s history of the excavation of the site of the city of Gezer. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation.

R.A. Stewart Macalister [1870-1950], Bible Side-Lights from the Mound of Gezer. A Record of Excavation and Discovery in Palestine. London: Hodder & Stoughton Publishers, 1906. Hbk. pp.232. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

  • Prologue
  1. Gezer—Its Site and History
  2. The Horites
  3. The Iniquity of the Amorite
  4. The Home of Rebekah
  5. The Golden Calf
  6. Achan’s Spoil
  7. The Death of Samson
  8. The City Walls
  9. The Craftsmen of Judah
  10. The Rebuilding of Jericho
  11. The Maccabean Conquest
  • Appendix: The Previous Work of the Palestine Exploration Fund
  • Index
  • Index of Scripture References
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