Reinforcement:
Finding Religion in a Barbarous Land
Case Studies: Biblical Archaeology
Palestine Exploration Fund
--Oldest leading source
--“Promote research into the archaeology and history, manners and customs and culture, topography, geology and natural sciences of biblical Palestine and the Levant” |
"The Oriental Exploration Fund"
--1904 by Ira Price
--Evidence of “...peoples contemporaneous with the Isrealites… [bringing] students and readers of the Bible… boundless enthusiasm” --Arcaeology “…most important brand of research... much has been done in bringing the ancient Orient to light” --“one of the chief reasons for early and aggressive work in excavation is that much valuable material is rapidly disappearing either through the brigandage of the natives or by the tooth of time” |
"Archaeology and
Christian Beginnings"
--A more objective look at biblical archaeology
--Schools of archaeology in the Middle East and what they have accomplished --Archaeology is a way to “get as vivid and realistic impressions as possible for early Christian origins” |
John Green’s “Editorial: Museums, Collections and Archives: Confronting the Past, Facing the Future”
News and Media
"The Indiana Jones Effect"
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News and Current Events
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Critique
Discussions of the West versus East are very polar, similar in concept to the arguments of Edward Said in his “Orientalism”
- Meskell in “Archaeology Under Fire”: analysis like that of Said, “seek[s] to formulate people as one and move away from the singularities of class, sex, geopolitical locale, sexual orientation”