Essays on Biblical History. From the Creation of the World to the Kingdom of Israel

The book by Leonid Gomberg "Essays on Biblical History" continues the gem that he has been working on for more than two decades. During this time, several books have been published, including those that gained the attention of readers and specialists: "Israel and Pharaoh" (2009), "Voice of the Desert" (2014), "The Good Land Beyond the Jordan" (2017), and dozens of articles and essays in which the events described in the Bible are examined by the author from a historical-philosophical perspective.

In this new work, the author rethinks many events and characters he wrote about in previous years, enriching the text with new facts that have become known to science: some plots are developed by him for the first time. The narrative encompasses the events of the first seven books of the Bible - the Pentateuch of Moses, as well as the Books of Joshua and Judges - from the creation of the world and man to the establishment of the Kingdom of Israel. The author presents convincing evidence of the historicity of biblical heroes and the relevance of many problems they had to solve several thousand years ago.

"The author has succeeded well in two crucial perspectives for understanding biblical history: the enormous role of what is commonly referred to as the geographical factor and convincing portraits of historical characters, separated from us by layers of millennia and the prolonged myth-making of numerous generations of people," wrote Doctor of Historical Sciences N.I. Basovskaya.