The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions: The Proceedings of a Symposium August 12-14, 2001 at Trinity Internatio (Paperback)

by James K. Hoffmeier (Editor), Alan Millard (Editor) "The debate on which I intend to focus was provoked by a suggestion of William G. Dever in the 1970s..." (more)
Key Phrases: zukru festival, historical minimalists, prodigious commotion, Bronze Age, Old Testament, Near Eastern (more...)

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Biblical archaeology has long been a discipline in crisis. "Biblical minimalists," who believe that the Bible contains little of actual historical fact, today are challenging those who accept the historicity of Scripture. In this volume Jewish and evangelical Christian archaeologists, historians, and biblical scholars confront the minimalist critique and offer positive alternatives. Bringing a needed scientific approach to biblical archaeology, the contributors construct a new paradigm that reads the Bible critically but sympathetically. Their work covers the full range of subjects relevant to understanding the context of the Bible, including proper approaches to scriptural interpretation, recent archaeological evidence, and new studies of Near Eastern texts and inscriptions. Contributors: Richard E. Averbeck Thomas W. Davis Daniel E. Fleming William W. Hallo Richard S. Hess James K. Hoffmeier Harry A. Hoffner Jr. David Merling Alan Millard Cynthia L. Miller John M. Monson Steven M. Ortiz Benjamin Edidin Scolnic Andrew G. Vaughn David B. Weisberg Edwin Yamauchi K. Lawson Younger Jr. Randall W. Younker Ziony Zevit

Product Details

• Paperback: 404 pages
• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (October 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802821731
• ISBN-13: 978-0802821737
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #914,542 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An assembly of informed scholars, August 4, 2007

By	Suppiluliuma "Suppiluliuma" - See all my reviews

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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3.0 out of 5 stars Chronology Problems in Biblical Arrchaeology, March 16, 2007

By	Humes Houston Hart (Waynesville, NC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.