The death of biblical history*

A close review of Provan, Long, and Longman’s A Biblical History of Israel (2003), exposing its theoretical and historiographical flaws, in the context of the historiographical ‘crisis’ of the current biblical history of Israel since the 1990s. Biblical history, as practised by conservative-evangelical scholars, does not live up to critical historiographical practice and should be replaced by more comprehensive treatments of biblical literature and the history of ancient Palestine.