TY - BOOK AU - Shanks,Hershel TI - Ancient Israel: from Abraham to the Roman destruction of the Temple SN - 9781935335412 (hardcover) AV - DS121 ANC .A53 2011 U1 - DS121 ANC 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Washington, DC PB - Biblical Archaeology Society KW - Jews KW - History KW - To 70 A.D N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The patriarchal age : Abraham, Isaac and Jacob / P. Kyle McCarter, Jr -- Israel in Egypt : the Egyptian sojourn and the Exodus / Nahum M. Sarna and Hershel Shanks -- The settlement in Canaan : the period of the Judges / Joseph A. Callaway and Hershel Shanks -- The united monarchy : Saul, David and Solomon / Andre Lemaire -- The divided monarchy : the kingdoms of Judah and Israel / Siegfried H. Horn and P. Kyle McCarter, Jr -- Exile and return : from the Babylonian destruction to the reconstruction of the Jewish state / Eric Meyers, with the assistance of Sean Burt -- The age of Hellenism : Alexander the Great and the rise and fall of the Hasmonean kingdom / Lee I. Levine -- Roman domination : the Jewish revolt and the destruction of the Second Temple -- Shaye J.D. Cohen ER -