FOREWORD

Every tribe or race has its history. Palestine is not an exception, it is a home

to many nations, out of which is Israel. Thanks to Christianity, a religion

which makes the Protestant Bible available in nearly every human race and

tongue. The Protestant Bible is into two parts: Old and New Testaments.

The terms Old and New Testaments originated from the early Christians,

precisely first century Christians, who referred to the Hebrew Bible as the

Old Covenant and their own Christian writings as the New Covenant.

Dr. Janet Salubuyi in this eight chapters book has presented perhaps, the

history of Israel as the most popular history in the world in a lucid original

apt and simple language. This book is special, and a must read for every

Christian religious teacher and students across levels and curricular, every

mother with her little congregation in her home, the missionaries, general

readers and of course every Christian.

Having heard and read Dr. Janet Salubuyi’s book, I can hear her voice as it

comes off the pages, re-echo that when the biblical characters encountered

God and wrote down their responses to the divine encounters, such written

document is considered to be inspired. Inspiration in this context does not

mean that God dictates the actual words to the writers. Rather, it means

that God was the initiator but man was the writer. This book sets the art of

documentation of the history of Israel, its people, and the canonization of

Hebrew Bible as a historical process in a wonderful perspective. Welcome

to the story of Israel from monarchy to exile as presented in the Nebiim or

the Prophets, and as re-told by this renowned author, Janet Salubuyi (PhD),

from an African historical scholarly perspective.

It is a joy to recommend a book that is such a delight to read.

Amodu, Eneojoh Jonah (PhD)

Associate Professor of Applied English Linguistics

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria