The Assyriologist A. H. Sayce surveys what the inscriptions of the ancient Near East had revealed about the Old Testament: Genesis, the Exodus, the Moabite Stone, the Siloam tunnel inscription, the Hittite empire, the Assyrian invasions of Israel and Judah, and the reigns of Nebuchadrezzar and Cyrus.
A key document of nineteenth-century biblical archaeology, written to answer sceptics; its scholarship is now dated but its enthusiasm is real. Download the free EPUB.