In The Making of Israel C.L. Crouch combines archaeology and anthropology to present the southern Levant during the seventh century BCE as a major period of Israelite ethnic identity formation and explores the implications of this for interpretation of Deuteronomy.

C.L. Crouch, D.Phil. (2009), is Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at the University of Nottingham and author of War and Ethics in the Ancient Near East (2009) as well as articles on Genesis, Deuteronomy and the prophetic books.