When a friend of mine in PR sent me a review copy of a new book on the excavation of an ancient site outside Jerusalem, I was skeptical that I would have much to say about the book. The subject, while intellectually interesting, is not exactly in my wheelhouse.
But, being a friend, I said I would take a look.
True enough, the book’s main thesis is interesting, but it is also not quite in my wheelhouse. When Stones Speak seeks to prove what to me is already established–that Israel is the ancestral land of the Jews. The excavation of the city of David, located just outside Jerusalem’s Old City, has a treasure trove of archaeological evidence that demonstrates that the region is the ancestral land of the modern Jews.
That this fact should need to be proven is bizarre, but a reality in the modern world. People who colonized the land are making claims that…
