This historical survey of the relationship between archaeology and biblical studies in the archaeological excavations in Palestine at Tell el-Hesi from 1840 to 1990 concentrates on the work of major excavators and scholars. It is a panoramic overview of the methods and theories that served to illuminate the archaeology of the Holy Land, beginning with and introductory chapter that covers the early pioneering years before the work of Pitt Rivers and Petrie.
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P. R. S. Moorey was a British archaeologist and historian of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. He was Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford, where he also served as Vicegerent of Wolfson College.
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In 1800 the Bible stood virtually unchallenged at the centre of the intellectual and religious life of the western world, a unique self-contained legacy from the ancient Near East. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, Iron Age, Near East, New Testament, Late Bronze Age, Palestine Exploration Fund, Holy Land, American School, Kathleen Kenyon, United States, Department of Antiquities, Tel Aviv, British School of Archaeology, Ecole Biblique, New York, Second World War, Tell Beit Mirsim, British Museum, Oriental Institute, Ras Shamra, Institute of Archaeology, Pitt Rivers, British Academy, Cambridge Ancient History, Eretz Israel New!
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In 1800 the Bible stood virtually unchallenged at the centre of the intellectual and religious life of the western world, a unique self-contained legacy from the ancient Near East. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, Iron Age, Near East, New Testament, Late Bronze Age, Palestine Exploration Fund, Holy Land, American School, Kathleen Kenyon, United States, Department of Antiquities, Tel Aviv, British School of Archaeology, Ecole Biblique, New York, Second World War, Tell Beit Mirsim, British Museum, Oriental Institute, Ras Shamra, Institute of Archaeology, Pitt Rivers, British Academy, Cambridge Ancient History, Eretz Israel New!
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- Archaeology of Palestine by William Foxwell Albright on 11 pages
- Biblical Archaeology by George Ernest Wright on 6 pages
- Archaeology from the Earth by Mortimer Wheeler on page 52, page 84, and page 96
- Archaeology in the Holy Land by Kathleen M. Kenyon on page 122, page 135, and Back Matter
- Near Eastern Archaeology in the Twentieth Century: Essays in Honor of Nelson Glueck. by James A. Sanders on page 23, page 143, and page 144
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- Identifying Biblical Persons in Northwest Inscriptions of 1200-539 B.C.E. (Academia Biblica (Society of Biblical Literature) (Paper)) by Lawrence J. Mykytiuk on page 19, and Back Matter
- What Did the Biblical Writers Know, and When Did They Know It? by William G. Dever on page 55, and Back Matter
- Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book) by Wendy M.K. Shaw in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Counter-Creationism Handbook by Mark Isaak on page 215, and Back Matter
- People of the Covenant: An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible by Henry Jackson Flanders Jr. in Back Matter
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