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