About the Author

Thomas L. Thompson is a Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He studied at Oxford, Tubingen and Temple (Philadelphia) universities and worked on the Tubingen Atlas of the Ancient Near East from 1969 to 1975. He was a Visiting Professor at the Ecole Biblique in Jeruslam and held various teaching posts in the United States before moving to Denmark. His books inlcude Histrocity of the Patriarchal Narratives (1974), The Original Tradition of Ancient Israel (1987) and The Early History of the Israelite People (1992).