Patriarchs and Matriarchs: History or Fiction?

Dever next starts at the very beginning of Israelite history—a very good place to start—with “Patriarchs and Matriarchs” including Abraham and Sarah, Jacob and Joseph. Although the Biblical minimalists have largely discounted these stories as pure fiction, Professor Dever demonstrates how archaeology can help us understand these Biblical figures in their historical contexts to locate nuggets of truth in their legendary tales. This was part of the How Archaeology Illuminates the Bible DVD.