Return to Sodom and Gomorrah
Bible Stories from Archaeologists

This is advertised as an interpretation of biblical events within a rational and historical context. Get ready to get quite a bit more. A bit all across the board, abounding with theories, some well-grounded, others a bit more speculative that are not only about the biblical past but also about the......more

I read Pellegrino’s Unearthing Atlantis years ago, and was completely enthralled. So much so, that, over the years, I’ve read as many of his books as I could. Finally picking this one up, I was surprised to read how much of the Bible’s stories interconnect with the events of that first book, though......more

This book just didn’t hold my attention and frustrated me. I got almost half way through and gave up! Good points - in what I read, he showed that the archeological record of events was consistent with events recorded in scripture once he got to recent pre-history, albeit that he always seemed to ta......more

This is an amazing synthesis of disciplines attempting to explain the nuggets of stories preserved in the old testament, by exploring the plausible means by which those stories could have been partly true.......more

Fantastic book. Brought the bible stories into a more human arena with rational arguments for how the stories occurred.......more