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The Lost Testament: From Eden to Exile The Five-Thousand-Year History Of The People Of The Bible (Hardcover)

by David Rohl (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Century (17 Oct 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0712669930
  • ISBN-13: 978-0712669931
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 373,209 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In The Lost Testament, David Rohl continues on the path he began with A Test of Time and Legend. In these books, and in a couple of TV documentaries, Rohl established himself as a relatively respectable iconoclast in the over-subscribed genre of rewriting ancient history. He's not one of those who finds extra-terrestrials or proto-Freemasons lurking under every pyramid. His main thesis is simply this: academic Egyptologists, archaeologists and historians have got their dates wrong, and this is why they can't match the Old Testament "historical" books to known Middle Eastern history. Their dating of ancient Egyptian history is out by 200-300 years, says Rohl.

In The Lost Testament, Rohl retells the Bible story--or at least the portion of it from Adam to the start of the Babylonian Captivity--in the light of his New Chronology. He links it in considerable detail with the mythology, history and geography of Mesopotamia and Egypt, showing where, in his view, the stories of Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David and the other well-known biblical heroes fit into their surrounding context. After telling the rewritten version of the biblical story, each chapter concludes with a section on the archaeological and historical setting of that story.

Like his earlier books, The Lost Testament is richly illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Whether one agrees with Rohl's theory or not--and it must be said that most conventional historians and archaeologists don't--this is not only a worthwhile intellectual exercise, but also a useful contribution to most readers' understanding of the Middle East three or four thousand years ago. --David V Barrett



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From carefree days in the Garden of Eden to weeping and wailing in Babylonian exile, few stories are as epic as that of the Israelites of the Old Testament. It's a tale that's been told, retold and analysed countless times, but David Rohl sets himself apart early on by promising to approach it from 'an entirely new "historical" perspective'. This perspective accompanies painstaking research and concise prose to ensure the tale is all the more enjoyable to read again. In previous works such as A Test of Time and Legend, Rohl put his credentials - degrees, prestigious scholarships and involvement in high-profile excavations - behind the theory that modern research had got the chronology of the ancient world wrong. Many exponents of prevailing archaeological wisdom bitterly opposed this premise, and he found himself labelled as a crank and a charlatan by many academics, accusations which obviously still hurt if some of his countering comments are anything to go by. It would have been better had the allegations, accusations and retorts in the introduction been scaled down, for they only reflect poorly on those involved in the world of archaeology and ancient history who have become embroiled in the name-calling. Rohl has persisted with his notion, though, and here sets about realigning the timeline so that events so vividly portrayed in the Old Testament fit the archaeological findings and the myths can once again be considered as reality. According to Rohl, the key to investigating biblical stories in conjunction with archaeological evidence is to have an open mind. Scholarly debates and professional rivalry aside, it's impossible to deny the Bible's epic magnificence or its importance to millions of devotees of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Those debates will undoubtedly continue to rage, but ultimately shouldn't hinder anyone from enjoying this excellent 'work-in-progress'. (Kirkus UK)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Plausible Hypothesis of Middle East Chronology, 20 Jan 2004
David Rohl's latest offering in his New Chronology series is just as fascinating as the others, "Test of Time" and "Legend".
His is a quite plausible explanation of how the chronologies of the ancient Middle East and the stories of the Christian bible can be reconciled, while most biblical archeologists apparently are not able to come up with a consistent explanation of all the relevant information. Of course, it is essential that one accepts Rohl's proposition that the standard chronology is flawed and has to be corrected.
My interest in Rohl's work comes primarily from my fascination with the old Egyptian civilisations. This book is mainly concerned with what Rohl calls the Children of Yahweh and their place in the history of the ancient Middle East. One gets the impression that in general they were quite an unpleasant bunch of neighbours, aggressive, intolerant, biased, untrustworthy etc., but probably the other peoples of those areas and era's were just the same, only less well documented.
I find the work of Rohl quite fascinating and I am looking forward to new books from this author. The reason I gave four stars instead of five is that sometimes one gets overwhelmed with lots of details and king lists etc, although it is clear from the typography that these don't belong to the main text but to further exposition of the theory. The photo's are all in black and white and this makes them less interesting, especially the pictures of archeological excavations look a bit too much alike.
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