Everyday Life in Bible Times HCDJ 500+Pix 448pg NatlGeo

Everyday Life in Bible Times: a Volume in the Story of Man Library Prepared by National Geographic Society.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover with Dust Jacket: 448 pages. Publisher: National Geographic Society; (1967). “Alive – really alive”. Such is the ancient world you enter within these 448 color packed pages. A world alive with the clamor of marketplaces in man’s early cities, where merchants hawk pots, lyres, and melons, and a slave sells for less than the price of a draft animal. Alive with the dust and danger of a caravan as Abraham leads his kin from pagan “Ur of the Chaldees” in quest of a promised land. Alive with the smell of mud and straw as Hebrews make bricks under the last of pharaohs; with the jeers of a Jerusalem mob surging to “the place of the skull” to watch Roman soldiers execute One the ages would call “The Prince of Peace”; with the howl of a tempest that shipwrecks His apostle, Paul.

In the past century the spades of science have brought forth a vast treasure of knowledge illuminating the great historical narratives of the Bible. Kings and conquests known only in its pages sprang to life in texts and monuments throughout the Fertile Crescent. With finds like the clay tablets of ancient Mesopotamia, with stunning bonanzas like the Dead Sea Scrolls of Qumran, scholars have now revived those distant days when hunters and foragers began to turn to farming, develop plow and wheel, cluster their homes in towns, learn to write, make war, and worship.

Now you will walk in those times. You bend your back with a score of Egyptians to drag a 2 1/2 ton block of stone up a ramp for the Great Pyramid of Cheops. You feel a chill of dread with besieged Hebrews as the walls of Lachish tremble under the sledgehammer blows of Assyrian battering rams. You eavesdrop as a Sumerian father of 4,000 years ago asks his teenage son late at night, “where did you go?” – and receives the classic answer, “I did not go anywhere.” Thirteen maps guide your steps; 528 illustrations – 412 in full color – whisk you to these fascinating days. In 130,000 words of text, you look at daily life in the time of towering figures of the Bible.

Dr. Samuel Noah Kramer writes of the Mesopotamia of Abraham’s era, following the dawn time of history. Professor John A. Wilson recreates the might and magnificence of the Egypt Moses deified. Dr. G. Ernest Wright rebuilds the robust kingdom of David and Solomon. Historian H.W.F. Saggs marches with Assyrian and Babylonian armies that laid it waste. Father Roland de Vaux awakens the days when Jesus “went throughout every city and village”. Dr. Emil G. Kraeling evokes the vast Roman Empire Paul traveled. And National Geographic writers and photographers journey in the footsteps of these Biblical figures, seeking sites and scenes that link them to us.

“To believe that there are ruins under a hill, and to find them,” Dr. James B. Pritchard has written, “is one of the thrills of archaeology.” Share that thrill with Dr. Pritchard, excavator of Biblical cities and consultant for this monumental work, and with other explorers as they probe for secrets at the far horizon of history. Peer over Howard Carter’s shoulders as he opens the tomb to Tutankhamun, aglitter with treasure untouched for 33 centuries. Cling by your fingernails to a Persian cliff, copying with Henry Rawlinson a cuneiform inscription that will defy translation for more than a decade, then unlock the secrets of tens of thousands of ancient tablets, from codes of law to odes of love. Watch for vipers as you patiently unearth with archaeologists some of the Bible’s great landmarks: Gibeon, Jericho, Bethel, Babylon, Nineveh – and learn to shake the scorpions out of your boots each morning. “Everyday Life in Bible Times”, proud product of four years of research and preparation, fittingly launches National Geographic’s “Everyday Life” series.

CONDITION: Inside of book + beige cloth covers are "like new", dustjacket is NOT. Pages are pristine; clean, crisp, unmarked, unmutilated, tightly bound, unambiguously unread (surely flipped through once or twice, but clearly never read). I'd guess original owner leafed through it once or twice + then put it on the bookshelf, never to take it down and actually read it. Dustjacket (in new mylar cover) shows considerable edge and corner shelfwear, with a number of small (neatly mended) closed edge tears, a small chip at the bottom edge of the backside of the dustjacket, and a larger (roughly quarter-dollar sized) hole in the middle of the backside of the dustjacket. Dustjacket is otherwise handsome + relatively intact, just shelf worn (it did its job and protected the book). The inside of the book as well as the cloth covers are without qualification, "like new". Satisfaction guaranteed. In stock, ready to ship.

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PLEASE SEE PUBLISHER, PROFESSIONAL, AND READER REVIEWS BELOW.

PUBLISHER REVIEW:

REVIEW: March of civilization in days of the Bible. Over 500 lavishly illustrations with 448 color packed pictured pages. First-hand accounts by archaeologists on the excavation of biblical sites.

PROFESSIONAL REVIEW:

REVIEW: [Dr. Norman Vincent Peale] “A fascinating and exciting work with superb pictures. It really makes the past come alive”. [Richard Cardinal Cushing – Archbishop of Boston] “Informative and inspirational. It will be received gratefully by religious peoples of all faiths”. [Dr. Nelson Glueck – Famous Biblical Archaeologist] “Written with masterful simplicity by outstanding scholars. A jewel of a book”.

READER REVIEW:

REVIEW: This is a superb introduction to Biblical Archaeology and life in the ancient world of the “Fertile Crescent”. The pictures and illustrations are simply remarkable. Over 400 color photographs! This is a compelling study of the Biblical era which is absolutely captivating and eminently illuminating. You’ll love it! It is not only very informative and educational, those pictures are simply marvelous!

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