Bibliography and references
The Bible, King James Version, subtitled The Open Bible – It is Written Heritage Edition published by Thomas Nelson, Nashville Tennessee, 1975.
Nelson Beecher Keyes, The Story of the Bible World, published by the Reader’s Digest Association, Pleasantville, New York, 1962.
Dr Susanne Glover Ph D, M Th, BD (Hons), WEA course: It Ain’t necessarily so – The Hebrew Bible in Crisis (WEA, 1August – 26 September 2012)
Matthew Sturgis, It Ain’t Necessarily So – Investigating the Truth of the Biblical Past, Charnwood, Leicester, 2003
Finkelstein, Israel. Did David Exist – the minimalists and the Tel Dan inscription, Appendix 1 of David and Solomon: in search of the Bible's sacred kings and the roots of the Western tradition. New York: Free Press, 2006.
Finkelstein, Israel and Silberman, Neil Asher. The Bible unearthed: archaeology's new vision of ancient Israel and the origin of its sacred texts. New York: The Free Press, 2001.
Finkelstein, Israel. The quest for the historical Israel: debating archaeology and the history of early Israel: invited lectures delivered at the Sixth Biennial Colloquium of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, Detroit. October 2005.
Richard Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible?, HarperOne 1987, 1996
Canon E W Barnes, Sc D., FRS, Canon of Westminster, The story of the Bible, in Volume 1: The Outline of Literature, John Drinkwater (ed), G P Putnam's Sons, New York and London, The Knickerbocker Press, 1923
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Transworld Publishers, Great Britain, 2007.
Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great – How Religion Poisons Everything, New York, 2007.
Etienne Charpentier, How to read the Old Testament, SCM Press, London 1981.
Karel Van der Toorn, Scribal culture: and the making of the Hebrew Bible. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, c 2007.
H.V.Morton, In the Steps of the Master, Methuen, London, 1953
Ibn Warraq, Why I am not a Muslim, Prometheus Books, New York, 1995 (2003)
Paul Tobin, The rejection of Pascal’s wager – A skeptic’s guide to the Bible and the historical Jesus, Author’s Online (hard copy), 2009
Meindert Dijkstra, El, the God of Israel – Israel, the People of YHWH: On the Origins of Ancient Israelite Yahwism, in Only One God? Monotheism in Ancient Israel and the veneration of the Goddess Asherah, in Bob Becking, Meindert Dijkstra, Marjo C A Korpel and Karel J H Vriezen, Sheffield Academic Press, London New York, 2001
Robin Lane Fox, The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible, Penguin, London, 1991
Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas, University of Chicago Press, 1978 (1985) Volume 1
Cameron Freeman, Scribes, Prophets, & Temple Priests: The process of establishing and maintaining Judean boundaries through the canonization of scripture: http://cameronfreeman.com/socio-cultural/anthropology-religion-christian-tradition/process-establishing-maintaining-judean-boundaries-canonization-scripture/
Megan Bishop Moore and Brad E. Kelle, Biblical History and Israel’s Past- The Changing Study of the Bible and History, William B. Eerdmanns Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, UK, 2011
Lester L Grabbe, They shall come rejoicing to Zion – or did they? The settlement of Yehud in the early Persian period”, Chapter 6 of Exile and Restoration Revisited – essays on the Babylonian and Persian Periods of Peter R. Ackroyd, Ed by Gary N. Knoppers and Lester L Grabbe, with Deirdre N. Fulton, T and T Clark, 2009
Jack P. Lewis, The Anchor Bible Dictionary Vol. III, New York, 1992
Robert Draper, Kings of Controversy – Was the kingdom of David and Solomon a glorious empire – or just a little cow town? It depends on which archaeologist you ask, National Geographic, December 2010, p 66- 91.
Nelson Beecher Keyes, The Story of the Bible World, published by the Reader’s Digest Association, Pleasantville, New York, 1962.
Dr Susanne Glover Ph D, M Th, BD (Hons), WEA course: It Ain’t necessarily so – The Hebrew Bible in Crisis (WEA, 1August – 26 September 2012)
Matthew Sturgis, It Ain’t Necessarily So – Investigating the Truth of the Biblical Past, Charnwood, Leicester, 2003
Finkelstein, Israel. Did David Exist – the minimalists and the Tel Dan inscription, Appendix 1 of David and Solomon: in search of the Bible's sacred kings and the roots of the Western tradition. New York: Free Press, 2006.
Finkelstein, Israel and Silberman, Neil Asher. The Bible unearthed: archaeology's new vision of ancient Israel and the origin of its sacred texts. New York: The Free Press, 2001.
Finkelstein, Israel. The quest for the historical Israel: debating archaeology and the history of early Israel: invited lectures delivered at the Sixth Biennial Colloquium of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, Detroit. October 2005.
Richard Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible?, HarperOne 1987, 1996
Canon E W Barnes, Sc D., FRS, Canon of Westminster, The story of the Bible, in Volume 1: The Outline of Literature, John Drinkwater (ed), G P Putnam's Sons, New York and London, The Knickerbocker Press, 1923
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Transworld Publishers, Great Britain, 2007.
Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great – How Religion Poisons Everything, New York, 2007.
Etienne Charpentier, How to read the Old Testament, SCM Press, London 1981.
Karel Van der Toorn, Scribal culture: and the making of the Hebrew Bible. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, c 2007.
H.V.Morton, In the Steps of the Master, Methuen, London, 1953
Ibn Warraq, Why I am not a Muslim, Prometheus Books, New York, 1995 (2003)
Paul Tobin, The rejection of Pascal’s wager – A skeptic’s guide to the Bible and the historical Jesus, Author’s Online (hard copy), 2009
Meindert Dijkstra, El, the God of Israel – Israel, the People of YHWH: On the Origins of Ancient Israelite Yahwism, in Only One God? Monotheism in Ancient Israel and the veneration of the Goddess Asherah, in Bob Becking, Meindert Dijkstra, Marjo C A Korpel and Karel J H Vriezen, Sheffield Academic Press, London New York, 2001
Robin Lane Fox, The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible, Penguin, London, 1991
Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas, University of Chicago Press, 1978 (1985) Volume 1
Cameron Freeman, Scribes, Prophets, & Temple Priests: The process of establishing and maintaining Judean boundaries through the canonization of scripture: http://cameronfreeman.com/socio-cultural/anthropology-religion-christian-tradition/process-establishing-maintaining-judean-boundaries-canonization-scripture/
Megan Bishop Moore and Brad E. Kelle, Biblical History and Israel’s Past- The Changing Study of the Bible and History, William B. Eerdmanns Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, UK, 2011
Lester L Grabbe, They shall come rejoicing to Zion – or did they? The settlement of Yehud in the early Persian period”, Chapter 6 of Exile and Restoration Revisited – essays on the Babylonian and Persian Periods of Peter R. Ackroyd, Ed by Gary N. Knoppers and Lester L Grabbe, with Deirdre N. Fulton, T and T Clark, 2009
Jack P. Lewis, The Anchor Bible Dictionary Vol. III, New York, 1992
Robert Draper, Kings of Controversy – Was the kingdom of David and Solomon a glorious empire – or just a little cow town? It depends on which archaeologist you ask, National Geographic, December 2010, p 66- 91.