Shifting Sands The Rise and Fall of Biblical Archaeology

Name: Shifting Sands The Rise and Fall of Biblical Archaeology
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ISBN: 9780195167108

ISBN-10: 0195167104

ISBN-13: 9780195167108

Edition: 2004

Authors: Thomas W. Davis

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Before the 1970s, "biblical archaeology" was the dominant research paradigm for those excavating the history of Palestine. Today this model has been "weighed in the balance and found wanting." Most now prefer to speak of "Syro/Palestinian archaeology." This is not just a nominal shift but reflects a major theoretical and methodological change. It has even been labeled a revolution. In the popular mind, however, biblical archaeology is still alive and well. In Shifting Sands, Thomas W. Davis charts the evolution and the demise of the discipline. Biblical archaeology, he writes, was an attempt to ground the historical witness of the Bible in demonstrable historical reality. Its theoretical…

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List price: $88.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/4/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.30" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Shifting Sands



The Beginnings



The Albright Watershed



Biblical Archaeology Triumphant



The Collapse of the Paradigm



The Legacy of Biblical Archaeology


Bibliography


Index