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Originally Posted by maximus83
There are some interesting books about biblical archaeology in the ancient Near East. As asked in the OP, you can find some that are not just about technical methodology, but are drawing out the interesting historical implications of various finds (e.g., this find supports an earlier or later date for the Israel's Exodus from Egypt, or this one supports the historicity of the ancient Hittite people that were mentioned in connection with Abraham in Genesis, etc.). There's quite a range, but the thing I find a lot of them have in common--which sadly makes it harder to find them in ebook format--is that they tend to include tons of large diagrams and photos. That means they tend to be in print, with only a few exceptions. An example of one like this that I have on the shelf is Bible Archaeology: An Exploration of the History and Culture of Early Civilizations, by Hoerth and McRay. I really like this one and recommend it as a popular survey of ANE archaeology for the interested non-specialist reader. I also have some archeology works in digital ebook form--a favorite is The Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land, 3rd ed., ed. by Avraham Negev. But this one, like the others I have, is locked up inside the Logos software program which is specialized (and spendy! :-)) software for studying the Bible in the original languages. So none of these will help you much if you want the book in a popular ebook format.
Here's a popular survey of the findings and historical implications of biblical archaeology that is available in Kindle form. I don't own it, but on the Kindle platform, this would be a good one to check out: Zondervan Handbook of Biblical Archaeology.
Taking things in a more specialist direction, but kind of a classic in biblical archaeology, is G.E. Wright's Biblical Archaeology. If you go to this query on archive.org, you can see that book is available as an epub loaner, but there's a waitlist for it. In a similar vein, this query shows some works there by Wright's mentor, W.F. Albright, including some in epub form. |
Thanks for the response. Yes, I saw a lot of biblical archeology books in the kindle store. I'm somewhat skeptical towards the search for Noah's Ark and prove the Bible type books. I am interested in the various ancient civilization books. For example, I have a number of books on Bronze age civilizations, but for the most part they are either very expensive as ebooks or aren't available as ebooks.