Shifting Sands
The Rise and Fall of Biblical Archaeology
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 demonstra…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-803735-4
- EAN: 9780198037354
- Produktnummer: 13938248
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'854 KB
- Abbildungen: 19 halftones
Über den Autor
Thomas W. Davis is Director of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute. He has more than twenty-five years of archaeological experience, having excavated in Cyprus, Jordan, Egypt, and the United States.
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