Archaeology and the Old Testament Author:James B. Pritchard Of the many popular books on archaeology and the Bible published in the last three decades this is one of the best. It is non-technical, concise, written in clear English and based on a thorough first-hand knowledge of the material. The aim of the author is to show how archaeology has corrected and supplemented what was known about Old Testament... more » persons and places since the days, scarcely more than a century ago, when all such knowledge came from a few Greek documents and the books of the Bible.« less