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The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age

Eric H. Cline (Ann Arbor, MI: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2000) 251 pp., 30 maps, 17 illus., $27.95 (hardback)

In the last 4,000 years, Egyptians, Canaanites, Israelites, Philistines, Hasmoneans, Greeks, Muslims, Crusaders, Mongols, Palestinians, Ottomans, Britons, Germans, Arabs and Israelis have all been locked in combat in the blood-soaked Jezreel Valley, in northern Israel. Small wonder that the author of Revelation identified this inauspicious site as Armageddon (from Har Megiddon, or Mount of Megiddo), the site of an end-time confrontation between good and evil.