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An assembly of informed scholars
The scholars assembled for this conference and eventual published volume are all top-notch in their respective fields: Egyptologists, Assyriologists, Hittitologists, Ugaritologists, field archeologists. Although their views on the historicity of the Bible are conservative, they speak cautiously and ground their views on a wide variety of types of evidence, both...
Published on August 4, 2007 by Suppiluliuma
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Chronology Problems in Biblical Arrchaeology
Hooffmeier provides an excellent discussion of the status of ongoing work and problems but fails to address the chronology problems brought out by David Rohl in "pharaohs and Kings, by Roger Henry in "Synchronized Chronology - Rethinking Middle East Antiquity" and by Ted T. Stewart in "Solving the Exodus Mystery". Anyone seriously interested in the archaeology and...
Published on March 16, 2007 by Humes Houston Hart
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An assembly of informed scholars, August 4, 2007
This review is from: The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions (Paperback)
The scholars assembled for this conference and eventual published volume are all top-notch in their respective fields: Egyptologists, Assyriologists, Hittitologists, Ugaritologists, field archeologists. Although their views on the historicity of the Bible are conservative, they speak cautiously and ground their views on a wide variety of types of evidence, both artifactual and documentary. I cannot think of a better place for a general reader to find orientation in the current debates about what history lies behind the biblical witness.
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Chronology Problems in Biblical Arrchaeology, March 16, 2007
This review is from: The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions (Paperback)
Hooffmeier provides an excellent discussion of the status of ongoing work and problems but fails to address the chronology problems brought out by David Rohl in "pharaohs and Kings, by Roger Henry in "Synchronized Chronology - Rethinking Middle East Antiquity" and by Ted T. Stewart in "Solving the Exodus Mystery". Anyone seriously interested in the archaeology and History of Palestine from 2500 to 4000 years ago, should read these other books as well as Hoffmeier.
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