There are many, many books and articles that have been written about the topics touched on in this book. Some are good, some are bad, some are fascinating, some have interesting insight—and some are just plain wrong. Here, I have listed some of the ones that I have found useful:
GENERAL BOOKS ON MYSTERIES OF THE BIBLE
Archaeology Magazine, eds. Secrets of the Bible. New York: Hatherleigh Press, 2004.
Meinhardt, Molly Dewsnap, ed. Mysteries of the Bible: From the Garden of Eden to the Shroud of Turin. Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 2004.
GENERAL BOOKS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
ARCHAEOLOGY, ANCIENT ISRAEL, AND THE BIBLE
Dever, William G. What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?: What Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001.
Feiler, Bruce S. Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses. New York: William Morrow, 2001.
Finkelstein, Israel, and Neil A. Silberman. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts. New York: Free Press, 2001.
Kitchen, Kenneth A. On the Reliability of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003.
Marcus, Amy D. The View from Nebo: How Archaeology Is Rewriting the Bible and Reshaping the Middle East. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2000.
Maxwell, Miller J. and John H. Hayes. A History of Ancient Israel and Judah, 2nd ed. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.
Provan, Iaian, V. Philips Long, and Tremper Longman III. A Biblical History of Israel. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003.
Shanks, Hershel, ed. Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple, 2nd ed. (rev.) New York: Prentice-Hall, 1999.
THE GARDEN OF EDEN
Hamblin, Dora Jane. “Sleuthing the Garden of Eden,” Smithsonian 18, no. 2 (1987): 127-135.
Hess, Richard S. “Eden: A Well-Watered Place,” Bible Review 7, no. 6 (1991): 28-33.
Sauer, James. “A Lost River of Eden: Rediscovering the Pishon.” In Mysteries of the Bible: From the Garden of Eden to the Shroud of Turin, ed. Molly Dewsnap Meinhardt. Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 2004.
Scafi, Alessandro. Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
NOAH’S ARK
Ryan, William B., and Walter C. Pitman. Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.
Stiebing, William H., Jr. Ancient Astronauts, Cosmic Collisions, and Other Popular Theories about Man’s Past. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1984.
ABRAHAM AND THE PATRIARCHS
Feiler, Bruce S. Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths. New York: William Morrow, 2002.
Hendel, Ronald S. Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory, and History in the Hebrew Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Van Seters, John. Abraham in History and Tradition. New Haven: Yale University, 1975.
Rast, Walter E. “Bab edh-Dhr’a and the Origin of the Sodom Saga.” In Archaeology and Biblical Interpretation: Essays in Memory of D. Glenn Rose, ed. Leo D. Perdue, Lawrence E. Toombs, and Gary L. Johnson. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1987.
Rast, Walter E. “Bronze Age Cities along the Dead Sea,” Archaeology 40, no. 1 (1987): 42-49.
van Hattem, Willem C. “Once Again: Sodom and Gomorrah,” Biblical Archaeologist 44 (1981): 87-92.
THE EXODUS
Bimson, John J. Redating the Exodus and Conquest, 2nd ed. Sheffield, U.K.: Almond Press, 1981.
Halpern, Baruch. “The Exodus from Egypt: Myth or Reality?” In The Rise of Ancient Israel, ed. Hershel Shanks. Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1992.
Hoffmeier, James K. Israel in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Hoffmeier, James K. Ancient Israel in Sinai: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Wilderness Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Redford, Donald B. Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.
JOSHUA AND THE BATTLE OF JERICHO
Bartlett, John R. Jericho. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1982.
Bienkowski, Piotr. Jericho in the Late Bronze Age. Warminster, U.K.: Aris and Phillips, 1986.
Garstang, John, and J. B. E. Garstang. The Story of Jericho, rev. ed. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1948.
Kenyon, Kathleen. Digging Up Jericho. London: Ernest Benn, 1957.
THE ISRAELITE CONQUEST OF CANAAN
Ben-Tor, Amnon, and Maria T. Rubiato. “Excavating Hazor, Part Two: Did the Israelites Destroy the Canaanite City?” Biblical Archaeology Review 25, no. 3 (1999): 22-39.
Dever, William G. Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003.
Silberman, Neil A. “Who Were the Israelites?” Archaeology 45, no. 2 (1992): 22-30.
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT
Hancock, Graham. The Sign and the Seal: A Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant. New York: Crown Publishers, 1992.
Munro-Hay, Stuart. The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant: The True History of the Tablets of Moses. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005.
Munro-Hay, Stuart, and Roderick Grierson. The Ark of the Covenant: The True Story of the Greatest Relic of Antiquity. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999.
Price, Randall. Searching for the Ark of the Covenant: Latest Discoveries and Research. Eugene, Ore.: Harvest House Publishers, 2005.
DAVID AND SOLOMON
Finkelstein, Israel, and Neil A. Silberman. David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible’s Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition. New York: Free Press, 2006.
Halpern, Baruch. David’s Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2001.
Kirsch, Jonathan. King David: The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001.
McKenzie, Steven L. King David: A Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
TEN LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL
Becking, Bob. The Fall of Samaria: A Historical and Archaeological Study. Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1992.
Gonen, Rivka. To the Ends of the Earth: The Quest for the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. North Bergen, N.J.: Book-Mart Press, 2002.
Parfitt, Tudor. The Lost Tribes of Israel: The History of a Myth. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002.