Covering the time span from the Paleolithic period to the destruction of
Jerusalem in 586 B.C., the eminent Egyptologist Donald Redford explores
three thousand years of uninterrupted contact between Egypt and Western
Asia across the Sinai land-bridge. In the vivid and lucid style that we
expect from the author of the popular Akhenaten, Redford presents a
sweeping narrative of the love-hate relationship between the peoples of
ancient Israel/Palestine and Egypt.