History of Ancient Israel and Jews

The book of Igor Tantlevsky covers the period of the history of ancient Israel and Jews from the beginning of the addition of the Jewish ethnic community on the land of Hanan around the 18th century BC. e. Before the fall of Jerusalem under the blows of the Babylonians in 586 BC. e. and the violent resettlement of Jews to Babylonia. The author sets the task of identifying real historical events associated with the stay of Jews in Egypt and the outcome, the conquest of the Canaan and the era of judges, the formation of a single Israeli kingdom and the existence of separate northern (Israel) and the southern (Judea) kingdoms. Corrections of biblical texts with the latest data of archeology and epigraphy of ancient Israel and Judea, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Ugarit, other countries of ancient Asia, he finds a key that allows us to separate the legend from the fact and by grains to recreate the images of Moses and Saul, David and Solomon, ancients. Kings of Judea and Israel.
Igor Tantlevsky (1961) - Professor, Head of the Department of Jewish Culture of St. Petersburg University