The Israelites
Subtitle: An Introduction
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 22, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780415180955
First sentence: It is with the patriarch Abraham, in about 1800 BCE, that the story of the Israelites properly begins, though it is at the time of Moses and the Exodus from Egypt that they first emerge as a people with an identity Abraham was descended from Shem, one of the sons of Noah (Gen. 11:10ff.).