1. The Bible Unearthed
   Article in Wikipedia on the book The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   A 2001 book about the archaeology of Palestine and its relationship to the origins of the Hebrew Bible.
2. Easily Led
   A History of Propaganda
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1999
   From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
3. The Invention of the Jewish People
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2009
   Sand argues that most contemporary Jews do not originate from the ancient Land of Israel, that they never existed as a "nation-race" with a common origin. Just as most contemporary Christians and Muslims are the progeny of converted people, not of the first Christians and Muslims, Judaism was originally, like its two cousins, a converting religion. Many of the present day world Jewish population are descendants of European, Russian and African groups. The original Jews living in Israel, contrary to the accepted history, were not exiled following the Bar Kokhba revolt. Sand argues that most of the Jews were not exiled by the Romans, and were permitted to remain in the country. He puts the number of those exiled at tens of thousands at most. Many Jews converted to Islam following the Arab conquest, and were assimilated among the conquerors. He concludes that the progenitors of the Palestinian Arabs were Jews.

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