A Critical History of Israel, Judah, and Their Successors: A Geopolitical and Archaeological Audit from the Amorite Migrations to the Founding of Baghdad

A historical audit of Israel, Judah, and their successor communities from the Amorite migrations to the founding of Baghdad, c. 2000 BCE to 762 CE, in one hundred and six volumes. The method is triangulation. Three independent streams of evidence are brought against every episode: the canonical text read closely in its original language, with attention to what the words meant before they acquired their theological weight; the external record of royal annals, administrative archives, diplomatic correspondence, inscriptions, coins, and excavated stratigraphy; and the physical constraint of terrain, march rates, water, grain, carrying capacity, and the metallurgy and engineering actually available in the period. Where the three converge the work says so and states the confidence. Where they diverge, the divergence is itself the finding, and it is reported rather than harmonised. Every substantive assertion carries its warrant tier as part of the assertion. The southern Levant is treated as a corridor between two river civilisations, so the events are read as the local consequence of decisions taken in Thebes, Nineveh, Babylon, Susa, Antioch, Rome, Ctesiphon, Constantinople, and Damascus. This is neither a devotional history nor a debunking. Publication Edition, 583 pages. A Master Edition of 621 pages is held in the git repository.