Ancient Egypt and the Hebrew Monarchies

Abstract

"To sum up, Ash’s work is the poorest of the three; its minimalist stance is not justified by the known facts and background, the work is frankly superficial, despite an outward show of erudition. Schipper’s industrious work is far more thorough in its more extended field, and contains much of value, but is also marred by its unrealistic nihilism and its nineteenth-centuiy style of subjective criticism, which cannot be justified on the known external facts, the only evidence that counts. Gallagher’s large work on one historical episode is an altogether more even-handed and more objective treatment of the biblical and other texts, and is of veiy considerable value, hisfaux pas over Taharqa excepted. Use and enjoy Gallagher, use Schipper veiy critically "