The Origins of the Bible in the Middle East

Ugerit had a huge acracy working from a lavish scriptorium, where the clay was prepared and the tablets were made hundreds of their texts have survived. It is in the late bronze age that biblical tradition places the exodus the rabbi is held to a date of precisely 14 76 b c,. That was also the period in which John garstang had dated his discoveries at jericho, first city conquered by the israelites. As i discussed in episode one point, five excavations at ugrit have provided us with a wealth of information about the period.