The Jewish people\'s historical claims to a small area of land bordering the eastern Mediterranean are not only the foundation for the modern state of Israel, they are also at the very heart of Judeo-Christian belief.
We can no longer talk about a time of the Patriarchs.
There never was a "united monarch" of Israel in Biblical times .
Among the author\'s startling conclusions are these: .
Yet in The Mythic Past, Thomas Thompson argues that such claims are grounded in literary myth, not history.
The Jewish people\'s historical claims to a small area of land bordering the eastern Mediterranean are not only the foundation for the modern state of Israel, they are also at the very heart of Judeo-Christian belief