Bible. What was "actually"? Tanya /Old Testament. Desnitsky A.

Did kings of Saul, David and Solomon exist, who was the author of the Pentateuch and what events described in the Old Testament actually took place? Disassembleing the most complex puzzles of biblicalism, the Russian scientist Andrei Desnitsky asks the question: is it legitimate to consider the Holy Scripture as a historical source? Can we reconstruct the biblical past with the help of the scientific method and how much of our reconstructions are determined by subjective expectations? The author correlates the problems of archaeological data and written sources, traces the connection of myth and history, the origin of ancient Israel and the formation of its statehood. This is an excitingly set out qualified scientific work, allowing the reader to look at the plots of one of the most important books in the history of mankind.