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Peer-reviewed The Jewish People: A History now online
With gratitude to the hundreds of students of Jewish history who contributed suggestions and edits to the first volume of The Jewish People: A History, and the constructive edits provided by the peer reviewers and the amazing editorial team at Koren Publishers (Jerusalem) I’m pleased to let you know that I will shortly be sending the manuscript to Jerusalem for the final editing and cartographic work. Students of the Jewish History Lab series have been with me since October 2020 as I worked through the challenges of the material (Volume 1 deals with the origins of the Jewish people through the Bar Kochba Revolt in the 2nd century CE), and I have benefitted from so many valuable comments and fair criticism.
The published volume should appear sometime in late 2024, perhaps early 2025. In the meantime, I’m pleased to offer students enrolled in the Biblical Jewish History course early access to the post-peer-reviewed chapters. I intend to take the draft texts down as we near the publication date, so if you are not registered for the course and would like to read the chapters, you are welcome to visit the link below and join the 200 students who are currently working their way through the videos, readings and quizzes.
If you have been hanging on to some hard questions, this is your opportunity to make yourself heard. Since we are approaching the last moment I will be able to make changes to the text before publication, I’m prioritizing emails from registered students. Every chapter has a link to reach me directly with your comments and questions.
Henry Abramson 
Dr. Abramson:
Your comment that there has never been a state called Palestine may be misunderstood. The concept of Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel predates the Romans and of course, can be found in the Bible and apocrypha.
Bob Epstein