The Lost Testament: From Eden to Exile: The Five Thousand Year History of the People of the Bible

The Lost Testament: From Eden to Exile: The Five Thousand Year History of the People of the Bible by Rohl, David. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780712669931.

The stories of the Old Testament retold from a modern, historical perspective. As the leading figure in the New Archaeology, David Rohl has been at the forefront of the movement to discover the archaeological evidence for events described in the Old Testament that we have come to think of as myths. From the rise of Neolithic civilization in a region now a part of Iran and which inspired the Garden of Eden story, Rohl traces the historical route of the stories of Noah, Abraham and the sojourn in Egypt, to the fall of Jericho. He looks at the dual kingdoms of the Promised Land and lastly, the exile in Babylon which is where the stories of the Old Testament were collected into something very like their present form.