When Bible Meets His­to­ry presents a well-researched, absorb­ing, and open-mind­ed case for bib­li­cal his­toric­i­ty. Care­ful research explores the Habur Riv­er Val­ley and its towns includ­ing Haran and Serug; Hebrews that ​“served oth­er gods (Joshua 25); exploits of Ben­jamin aka Beni Yamin; the Bahr Joseph on the Nile Riv­er; 4000-year-old pro­to-Hebrew stone carv­ings; and evi­dences of the Exo­dus — or both events of Exo­dus. His­to­ry is revealed, and a rec­on­cil­i­a­tion of chronol­o­gy and scrip­ture is pur­sued. To do this, we look to what mold­ed the Hebrew soul and why apply­ing that expe­ri­ence to Torah so changed the world. Hebrews were a band of out­casts that made a liv­ing on the periph­eries of the monar­chy, accept­ed escaped slaves, and dis­dained roy­al edicts. They fig­ured out how to trade with tyrants and in doing so, dis­cov­ered that moral­i­ty and moral laws work. They deduced that hun­dreds of gods do not add up to God. They devel­oped stiff resis­tance to blath­er about idols and the nat­ur­al rights of the pow­er­ful. And they chose Divine lead­er­ship in it all.