From Eden To Exile

The stories of the Old Testament retold from a modern, historical perspective As the leading figure in the New Archaeology, David Rohl has been at the forefront of the movement to discover the archaeological evidence for events described in the Old Testament which we have come to think of as myths. His previous books, The Test of Time and Legend presented the arguments and counter-arguments. In The Lost Testament this discursive approach is replaced by historical story-telling, which follows the sequence of events from the rise of Neolithic civilisation a region now part of Iran which inspired the story of the Garden of Eden, through Noah, Abraham and the sojourn in Egypt, to the fall of Jericho, the dual kingdoms of the Promised Land and lastly, the exile in Babylon, where the stories of the Old Testament were collated into something very like their present form.

Author Biography

David Rohl holds a degree in Egyptology and Ancient History from University College London, where he was also awarded the W.F Masom History Research Scholarship. Rohl has excavated at Kadesh-on-the-Orontes with the expedition of the Institute of Archaeology. He co-founded and was Director of The Institute for the Study of Interdisciplinary Studies (ISIS), until its dissolution in 2005. He was the writer and presenter of the internationally acclaimed television documentary series Pharaohs and Kings- A Biblical Quest. Rohl is Britain’s leading Egyptologist and currently lives in Spain.