This is a historical geography of the land of the Bible that brings together, for the benefit of both the scholar and the general reader, the vast mass of research and exploration that has been done on a country whose origins now fascinate an educated public as never before, Professor Aharoni, himself a scholar of great repute, has converted the details of his own research and that of his colleagues past and present, into a flowing account of the history of the country and its people from its earliest beginnings up to the onset of the New Testament Era.