Kingdom of Priests: A History of Old Testament Israel

The purpose of this study is not so much to interpret the meaning of the underlying events--a task more properly in the province of biblical theology--as it is to discover the historical data themselves and by every resource at our disposal (including the biblical text, extrabiblical documents, and archaeology) to reconstruct the history of Israel along the lines of ordinary historiographical method, that is, to the extent that such a goal is possible, given the unique nature of the material.