...departure the recently published volumes by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, "The Bible Unearthed", and William Dever, "What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?" The two volumes fall into a very predictable category...

...Israel Finkelstein of Tel Aviv University in "The Bible Unearthed" (with co-author Neil Asher Silberman), and William Dever of the University of Arizona in "What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?" Dever spurns skepticism...