Book of Ephraim Bauch and Leonid Gomberg "Apology of Non-Existence. Shlomo Zand: The New Myth of the Jews" is an energetic response from well-known writers in Israel and Russia, popularizers of scientific knowledge, to the work of Shlomo Zand "Who Invented the Jewish People and How." The book of S. Zand caused scandals in different countries, since, according to the author, the Bible was created at the end of the 1st millennium BC, which contradicts not only modern science, but also common sense. S. Zand's "Theory" completely crosses out the historical layer of the biblical narrative. The authors of the present book, in a vivid form accessible to the mass reader, demonstrate the failure of S. Zand's "innovative ideas" and sharply criticize them. They convincingly prove that the biblical patriarchs, the exodus from Egypt, the activities of the Israeli kings David and Solomon are a historical reality, and not the idle fiction of some "late authors."