About the book: 2003 / What are the Biblical Countries? According to most modern scholars, this is the so-called Syro-Palestinian region. that is, the space between Asia Minor and Egypt, the Mediterranean Sea and Mesopotamia. At times, part of Upper Mesopotamia and the Sinai Peninsula adjoined them. It was there that both Hebrew kingdoms experienced their heyday and death. Phenicia, the mighty Hittite and Assyrian empires, the Achaemenid state. It was there that the great book of our civilization was written - the Bible. The reader is offered a detailed account of the sequence of historical events described in the Bible, compiled by the author on the basis of data from modern science, original assumptions about their possible relationship, and the identification of a number of biblical characters.