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Anything that flies in the face of blind-faith... There's certainly as much evidence--if not more--to support the authors' hypotheses as there is to discount them... the only arguments against that statement being variations on "that's not what the Bible says." That is I believe one of their main and most salient points. I do wish they had spent less time equivocating, vacillating and otherwise pointing out the gaps in their theories but considering the subject matter I can understand the pre-emptive assumption of a defensive posture. The consistency of citations, source identification and contextual analysis makes the journey far more compelling, especially in light of recent works of fiction drawn from the theories. There is no question as you read this work that it is an historical analysis and not a simple attempt to sell books based on controversy. It may anger those of faith but one must consider that if their faith can be angered so-how strong is that faith?