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Light from the Ancient Past: The Archeological Background of the Hebrew-Christian Religion (1946) is a book by Jack Finegan.

Abstract

Editions and translations

Published in Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1946 / 2nd ed. 1959 (repr. 1969).

Table of contents

  • 1. Mesopotamian beginnings
  • 2. The panorama of Egypt
  • 3. Penetrating the past in Palestine
  • 4. Empires of Western Asia: Assyria, Chaldea and Persia
  • 5. The Holy Land in the time of Jesus
  • 6. Following Paul, the traveler
  • 7. Manuscripts found in the sand
  • 8. Exploring the Catacombs and studying the sarcophagi
  • 9. The story of ancient churches

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