In recent times Biblical archaeology has been heavily criticised by some camp who maintain that it has little to offer Near Eastern archaeology. However, some scholars carry on the fight to change people's views and this collection of essays continues the trend towards reassessing and reemphasising the link between the Bible and archaeology. Taken from a colloquium held by the North Sinai Archaeological Project in Illinois in 2001, the nineteen contributors take a variety of archaeological, linguistic, textual, factual, theoretical and methodological approaches to the historicity of the Bible. Argued to be a product of self-examination the authors in this volume suggest that the discipline has, and in some cases continues, to be misunderstood and indeed has a contribution to make to archaeology and history.