What are biblical countries? According to most modern scientists, this is the so-called Syro-Palestinian region, that is, the space between Asia Minor and Egypt, the Mediterranean Sea and Mesopotamia. At times, part of Upper Mesopotamia and the Sinai Peninsula adjoined them. It was there that both ancient Hebrew kingdoms, Phenicia, the mighty Hittite and Assyrian empires, and the Achaemenid state experienced their heyday and death. It was there that the great book of our civilization was written - the Bible. The reader is offered a detailed account of the sequence of historical events described in the Bible, compiled by the author on the basis of data from modern science, original assumptions about their possible relationship, and the identification of a number of biblical characters.

Contents: Introduction

On the dawn of civilization Canaan and Amurru Under the rule of the great powers Movements of peoples and related political changes Jewish kingdoms Syria during the independence City-states of Phenicia Biblical countries within the Middle Eastern empires The beginning of Hellenism The Seleucid Empire and the Second Kingdom of Judah Under the rule of Rome Syria and Palestine in the late Roman and early Byzantine periods

Conclusion

Sources and literatureLiterary and epigraphic sources (abbreviated names)Index of names of historical and mythological charactersIndex of geographical and ethnic names