Name: The Roads and Highways of Ancient Israel, Paperback/David a. Dorsey
Brand: Wipf & Stock Publishers
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Description Drawing on literary and archaeological evidence, David A. Dorsey examines the road system in Israel during the Iron Age (ca. 1200-586 B.C.). He offers a comprehensive investigation of the nature and physical characteristics of roads in ancient Israel and reconstructs Israel's road network as it existed during the Old Testament period. ""Anyone familiar with transportation and communications systems in the ancient Near Eastern world is well-aware of the groundbreaking work of David A. Dorsey, The Roads and Highways of Ancient Israel. This work represents original first-hand research; it is the product of years spent across a wide sweep of Israel actively engaged in on-site and regional research, including working with the vestige of archaeological remains, local topography, and giving consideration to literary sources, both biblical and secular. In simplest terms, this volume as well as any shows us how a biblical character may have gotten from point A to point B in a given biblical episode. In unprecedented ways, this work seeks rather comprehensively to describe and to delineate roads in Israel during the Iron Age, a period of history that has become very much at the center of today's biblical scholarship. I congratulate Wipf & Stock for its farsighted wisdom in bringing this necessary, valuable and widely-applicable biblical resource back into print."" --Barry J. Beitzel, author of The New Moody Atlas of the Bible and editor of Lexham Geographic Commentary on th