The future of biblical archaeology : reassessing methodologies and assumptions : the proceedings of a symposium, August 12-14, 2001 at Trinity International University /

The future of biblical archaeology : reassessing methodologies and assumptions : the proceedings of a symposium, August 12-14, 2001 at Trinity International University / [print] edited by James K. Hoffmeier and Alan Millard. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : W.B. Eerdmans Pub., (c)2004. - xviii, 385 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

The biblical archaeology versus Syro-Palestinian archaeology debate in its American institutional and intellectual contexts Theory and method in biblical archaeology The relationship between archaeology and the Bible : expectations and reality Integrating faith, the Bible, and archaeology : a review of the "Andrews University way" of doing archaeology The North Sinai Archaeological Project's excavations at Tell el-Borg (Sinai) : an example of the "new" biblical archaeology? Ziony Zevit -- Thomas W. Davis -- David Merling -- Randall W. Younker -- James K. Hoffmeier -- Homer and archaeology : minimalists and maximalists in classical context A new working hypothesis for the identification of Migdol Deconstructing and reconstructing the united monarchy : house of David or tent of David (current trends in Iron Age chronology) Amorites and Israelites : invisible invaders--modern expectation and ancient reality Sumer and the Bible : a matter of proportion Ancient Israel's literary heritage compared with Hittite textual data Edwin Yamauchi -- Benjamin Edidin Scolnic -- Steven M. Ortiz -- Alan Millard -- William W. Hallo -- Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. -- Genesis in history and tradition : the Syrian background of Israel's ancestors, reprise Multiple-month ritual calendars in the West Semitic world : Emar 446 and Leviticus 23 The repopulation of Samaria (2 Kings 17:24, 27-31) in light of recent study Methodological issues in reconstructing language systems from epigraphic fragments The role of context and the promise of archaeology in biblical interpretation from early Judaism to post modernity Daniel E. Fleming -- Richard S. Hess -- K. Lawson Younger, Jr. -- Cynthia L. Miller -- John M. Monson -- Ancient Near Eastern mythography as it relates to historiography in the Hebrew Bible : Genesis 3 and the cosmic battle "Splendid truths" or "prodigious commotion"? : ancient Near Eastern texts and the study of the Bible Can we write a history of Israel today? Richard E. Averbeck -- David B. Weisberg -- Andrew G. Vaughn.



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