Content
- Preface
- Antiquity
- Historical period
- Ancient Jerusalem
- List of cards
- Number list
- Summary list
- Introduction
- Introduction to the geography and archeology of the Ancient Near East
- Introduction to the Old Testament and its nature as historical evidence
- The West rediscovers the Holy Land
- “Archaeological Bible” and “Archaeological Biblia” in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Classic classical criticism and commentary
- The word ancient originally referred to the ancient Bronze Age in Canaan.
- Canaanite archeology
- The Book of Genesis and the Traditions of the Patriarchs of Israel
- Israel inside and outside Egypt
- Research on the archeology of Iron Age I Israel.
- Israel’s search for biblical evidence
- Philistines in the time of the Judges
- Union Empire
- The southern kingdom of Judah is surrounded by enemies
- Destruction and escape
- Persia and Yehuda
- Charles David Isbell
- Dictionary
- Bibliography
- Government Gazette
- Bible and Ancient Index
- Public directory
- Sponsors
Preface
In recent years writers have begun to discuss how students began college Bible classes and how Bible students and ancient Israelite Bible students began. Specifically, we wondered: What new discoveries from archaeological and historical research contributed to their understanding of ancient Israel and its history? Did the Bible study give these students the opportunity to discuss the Bible? Did the public only see the apologetic statements supported and issued by the church and synagogue? What we found was disappointing. Introductory textbooks, even at the university level, focus heavily on biblical texts and cite archaeological information only in context—usually when there is a good picture. The Old Testament books are based on Bible stories rather than ancient ruins. The situation of ordinary people is disastrous. We have failed to see how the interested and intelligent reader can understand the contributions of fields from “Biblical Mysteries” TV shows that interest viewers in watching rather than knowing through careful interpretation of books on different theologies. Archeology, biblical studies, and ancient history to understand ancient Israel. Finally, where important works exist, they are not written in a way that is accessible to beginning students.
A century ago, it was true that if you wanted to understand the ancient Israelites you had to read the Bible, the Old Testament. If you want to understand the Old Testament today, you must study the history and archeology of the ancient nation of Israel.
The authors believe it is important to present the origins and history of ancient Israel so that students can understand the Israelites based on all the evidence and not on a single collection of ancient texts. Studying ancient Israel must be more than just studying the Bible. This book aims to address the concerns of students and the general public by showing how archaeological research, including ancient texts and documents from other lands and empires, helps modern readers understand the political forces, social, and sometimes military influences among the ancient Israelites. and led their writers to write books of the Bible.
This book brings together biblical scholars and archaeologists who comment on current research and paint a picture of the origins and history of the nation of Israel in ancient Near Eastern history. Despite the deep expertise of our writers, they have all compiled their chapters for an audience without in-depth knowledge of ancient Israel—those who want a better understanding of than those who already know it. Fourteen experts from different periods of ancient Israelite history contributed chapters to Israel, as did the authors. This success is a result of collaboration, because despite the apparent connection between the Bible and the archeology of ancient Israel, the two fields have no history of collaboration. Yes, archaeologists working in Israel are accused of digging a trap in one hand and a Bible in the other. But few archaeologists are trained as biblical scholars.
As William Dever distinguishes in Chapter 5, the connection that marked ‘Biblical archaeology’ before the 1970s is not between archeology and ‘Biblical study’ but between archeology and theology. As Mark Elliott notes in Chapter 2, biblical archaeologists such as William F. Albright viewed themselves as opposed to “critical criticism” and related studies of the biblical text. On the other hand, few Bible scholars had the training and history to understand the details of archaeological research and were able to integrate it into their research at a basic level. Academic researchers have of course used ancient texts unearthed during excavations, but were they discovered during the excavations? Not much.
From this perspective, the teamwork and collaboration that this book demonstrates was easy to achieve. The authors would like to thank the authors for their contribution to the realization of the vision that forms the basis of this book. It tolerates many “demands” and requests for revision in some areas. Thank you for your patience and kindness to us. Baylor University Press and its president, Carey Newman, have been very supportive and patient with this project. BUP’s production team completed this project through the publishing process. The authors are proud and grateful for the care and expertise shown by BUP in the preparation of this book. Another institution that deserves praise for supporting his work is the Bible. com and especially Todd Bolen. Bible field. com has made many of the photographs in this book available for free. We also thank Norma Franklin, Jim West, and Pat Landy for reading many of the drafts and providing helpful comments, and Conor McCracken-Flesher for creating the index. Jennie Ebeling and Paul Flesher both W. F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research in Jerusalem for funding the final year of work on this project. Albright named Jennie the Distinguished Professor of the Year in 2015-2016 and the Paul Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professor in spring 2016. The École Biclique et archologies française de Jerusalem and the Israel Antiquities Center at the Rockefeller Museum were also very helpful. Paul also thanks Dean Paula Lutz and the University of Wyoming for granting him sabbatical leave during the 2015-2016 academic year (where he worked to complete this project) and the staff of the University of Wyoming Coe Library Interlibrary Department for providing access to the following works: not available in school’s sound. Jennie states that is Alexandra Cutler, as well as the Department of Archeology and Art History at the University of Evansville.
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