· And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years. Were they? Or has the accepted great age of some Old Testament characters been caused through misinterpretation of ancient writings? · Could 2,500,000 people have taken part in the Exodus from Egypt? The author re-assesses the work and character, and hence the importance of Moses. · How many Pharaohs does Scripture mention? Who were they? An examination of the controversial link up of Joseph with Akenaton and Tutankhamen. · How could Samson kill a thousand men with a jaw bone? And when did Abraham really live? Here are striking new answers to these and other questions, answers derived from an entirely fresh approach to the Scriptural text itself, as history, in a study which reads like a detective story. And after all the analysis of complex figures and statistics, in the end we still find - a Man& the goal of all genealogies, the Head of the Ladder of Time.