Legend: The Genesis of Civilisation
By David Rohl
Century, London. 453 pages. £20.00
ISBN 0 7126 7747 X
The name of David Rohl provokes very diverse reactions among those who know of him or have read his previous work in this series, Test of Time(The Bible: from myth to history), which was also serialised on television.
Conventional archaeologists have reacted with anger and bitterness to his reconstructions of ancient chronology (specifically Egyptian). Others, especially among evangelicals although not exclusively so, have rallied round in support of this thesis.
