The question of whether the Bible contains any element of historical truth has been the cause of one of the most divisive and compelling debates of this century. For modern churchmen and Jewish scholars the text of the Book of Books is seen as an amalgam of myth, mistakes and misinterpretation, yet enshrining still a large substratum of fact. While some have claimed to have made such icredible discoveries as the Ark of Noah, the site of the crossing of the Read Sea, and the Ark of covenant, for others even the historicity of the Biblical king David and Solomon must be rejected....