The History of Biblical Archaeology

The History of Biblical Archaeology: Uncovering the Ancient World of the Bible (Electronic Christian Media, 2024).  

Biblical Archaeology Series #7

Publisher: Electronic Christian Media
6 X 9 format, ca 485 pages
  

Experienced archaeologist Dr. David E. Graves has assembled a history of biblical archaeology written for undergraduate students to provide a foundation for the discoveries presented in the companion volumes of The Archaeology  of the New Testament , The Archaeology of the Old  Testament and The Archaeology of Biblical People.

Video Introduction

 Introduction:

Welcome to our blog post, where we invite you to embark on a captivating journey through the pages of The History of Biblical Archaeology.

In this groundbreaking book, author and experienced archaeologist Dr. David E. Graves takes readers on a journey through the fascinating field of biblical archaeology, from its humble beginnings in the 19th century to its current state as a thriving and respected field of study including expeditions in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Jordan, Greece, Anatolia, and Syria. Drawing from his extensive research and personal experiences, Dr. Graves uncovers the fascinating stories of the men and women who dedicated their lives to uncovering the treasures of the past.

Unearthing Ancient Treasures:

Through detailed accounts and vivid descriptions, readers will witness the excavation of ancient cities and uncovering of artifacts that shed light on the events and people mentioned in the Bible. From the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls to the unearthing of King David’s palace, and the legendary city of Jericho to the awe-inspiring ruins of ancient Jerusalem, each chapter delves into a different period of history and showcases the groundbreaking discoveries that have shaped our understanding of the Bible

Unveiling the Past:

Through meticulous research and engaging storytelling, this book sheds light on the methods, challenges, and triumphs of biblical archaeologists throughout history. It explores how these dedicated individuals have unearthed ancient artifacts, deciphered inscriptions, and pieced together fragments of the past to reconstruct the world in which the Bible was written.

A Tapestry of Knowledge:

The History of Biblical Archaeology weaves together a rich tapestry of archaeological findings, historical context, and biblical scholarship. It explores the intersections between archaeology and the Bible, examining how these discoveries have deepened our understanding of biblical narratives, characters, and events. But this book is not just a retelling of archaeological findings. Dr. Graves also explores the controversies and debates that have surrounded Biblical archaeology, including conflicts with religious beliefs and accusations of forgery. He also delves into the ethical dilemmas faced by archaeologists and the impact of their work on local communities.

Beyond the Bible:

This book goes beyond the confines of the Bible itself, exploring the broader historical and cultural contexts in which biblical events unfolded. It examines the civilizations, empires, and cultures that left their mark on the biblical lands, providing a comprehensive understanding of the world in which the Bible emerged. Through meticulous research and engaging storytelling, this book sheds light on the methods, challenges, and triumphs of biblical archaeologists throughout history. It explores how these dedicated individuals have unearthed ancient artifacts, deciphered inscriptions, and pieced together fragments of the past to reconstruct the world in which the Bible was written.

A Valuable Resource:

Whether you are a biblical scholar, a history enthusiast, or simply curious about the ancient world, The History of Biblical Archaeology is an invaluable resource. It offers a comprehensive overview of the field, presenting complex ideas in an accessible manner, and providing a solid foundation for further exploration.The History of Biblical Archaeology weaves together a rich tapestry of archaeological findings, historical context, and biblical scholarship. It explores the intersections between archaeology and the Bible, examining how these discoveries have deepened our understanding of biblical narratives, characters, and events.

Conclusion:

The History of Biblical Archaeology is a captivating book that takes readers on an enlightening journey through the annals of time. It celebrates the tireless efforts of archaeologists who have unearthed the treasures of the past, enriching our understanding of the Bible and the ancient world. So, grab a copy, embark on this adventure, and discover the wonders that lie beneath the sands of time.

This insightful book will:

• Illustrate archaeological finds with more than 50 pertinent color photographs, detailed map and carefully crafted charts
• Colorized photographs of old Portraits of archaeologists
  
• Include a glossary defining technical archaeological terms
• Provide extensive footnotes and bibliography for future study
• Include a detailed subject index

   NOTE: Until published this is subject to change. The first date before their names is the date of their important finds. The later dates are their birth and death.

Chapters include:

INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY    18

• Introduction 
• Definition of Biblical Archaeology   

CONTROVERSY IN BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY    21

• Minimalist View   
• Maximalist View   
• Direct and Indirect Evidence   
• Tolerance   

THE ROLE OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN BIBLICAL STUDIES   29

THE BIRTH OF BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY   33

• ANTIQUARIANS   
• NATIONALISM   

THE DISCOVERIES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY    36

• FILLING MUSEUMS   

EGYPTIAN EXPLORATIONS    43

• 1799 André Joseph Boussard (1758–1813)   
• Rosetta Stone: The Key to Hieroglyphics   
• 1822 Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832)   
• 1815 Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823)   
• 1815 The Elephantine Papyri (1815–1904)   
• 1815 Henry Salt (1780–1827)   
• 1820 Bernardino Drovetti (1776–1852)   
• 1836 Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788–1865)   
• 1842 Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884)   
• 1844 Constantin von Tischendorf (1815–1874)   
• 1858 Development of Egyptian Controversy   
• 1858–1906 Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942)   
• The Father of Palestinian Archaeology   
• 1890 Egyptian Exploration Society   
• 1890 Tell el-Hesi   
• Stratigraphy and Pottery Reading   
• 1896 The Merneptah Stela (1896)   
• 1904 Serabit el-Khadim Inscriptions   
• 1927–1942 Palestine   
• Later life   
• 1865 John Lubbock (1834-1913)   
• 1873 Victor Guérin (1848-1917)   
• 1876 Henri Édouard Naville (1844–1926)   
• 1887 The Amarna Letters   
• 1890 Percy Edward Newberry (1869–1949)   
• 1891 J. Rendel Harris (1852–1941)   
• 1899 Howard Carter (1874–1939)   
• 1902 George Andrew Reisner (1867–1942)   
• 1905 Arthur Weigall (1880–1934)   
• 1906 James Henry Breasted (1865–1935)   
• 1907-1910 David George Hogarth (1862–1927)   
• 1908 Bernard Payne Grenfell (1869–1926)   
• 1908 Arthur Surridge Hunt, FBA (1871–1934)   
• The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (1897)   
• 1913 Ludwig Borchardt (1863-1938)   
• 1915 Alan Gardiner (1879–1963)   
• 1919 Sir Robert Ludwig Mond (1867–1938)   
• 1957 Michela Schiff Giorgini (1923–1978)   
• 1972 Kenneth Kitchen (1932–)   
• 2001 Manfred Görg (1938–2012)   
•  The Berlin Statue Pedestal Relief   

MESOPOTAMIAN EXPEDITIONS    101

• 1778 Carsten Niebuhr (1733–1815)   
• 1800 Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775–1853)   
• 1811 Claudius James Rich (1787–1821)   
• 1827 Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (1810–1895)   
• 1836 The Behistun Relief Inscription   
• 1830 Colonel Robert Taylor (1790–1852)   
• 1842 Paul-Émile Botta (1802–1870)   
• 1845-1872 Austin Henry Layard (1817–1894)   
• Portrait of Israel’s King   
• 1845 Nimrud Palace (1845)   
• 1846 The Black Obelisk (1846)   
• 1847 Nineveh, Palace of Sennacherib (1847)   
• 1947 The Lachish Reliefs   
• 1848 Publications (1848)   
• 1849 Palace and Library of Ashurbanipal (1849)   
• 1850 Layard’s Success (1850’s)   
• 1851 Assyrian Reliefs (1851)   
• 1873 Nimrud the Annals of Tiglath-Pileser III (1873).   
• 1853 William Kennett Loftus (1820–1858)   
• Ashurbanipal’s Lion Hunt    128
• 1853 Hormuzd Rassam (1826–1910)   
• 1853 The Epic of Gilgamesh   
• Later archaeological career   
• 1878 Balawat Gates   
• 1879 Cyrus Cylinder   
• 1881 Nabonidus Cylinder   
• Archaeological reputation   
• 1853 George E. Smith (1840–1876)   
• The Library of Ashurbanipal   
• 1873 The Story Behind the Epic of Gilgamesh   
• 1876 The Enuma Elish (ca. 1000 BC)   
• 1884 Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy (1844–1920)   
• 1899 Robert Johann Koldewey (1855–1925)   
• The Jehoiachin‘s Ration Tablet   
• 1889 Sir Ernest A. T. Wallis Budge 1876 (1857-1934)   
• 1901 Gustave Jéquier (1868–1946)   
• 1909 Gertrude Bell (1868–1926)   
• 1912 Arno Poebel (1881–1958)   
• The Ziusudra (Eridu Genesis) Epic (ca. 1600 BC)   
• 1912–1914 Archaeology and Intelligence Work   
• 1913 Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935)   
• 1922 Herbert Weld-Blundell (1852–1935)   
• 1922 Sir Leonard Woolley (1880-1960)   
• 1925 Edward Chiera (1885–1933)   
• 1929 Agatha Christie (1890–1976)   
• 1929 Max Mallowan (1904–1978)   
• Nimrud (1949)   

JORDANIAN DISCOVERIES    190

• 1868 Frederick Augustus Klein (1827–1903)   
• 1868 The Moabite Stone/The Mesha Stela
• 1884 The Madaba Map
• 1927 Olga Tufnell (1905–1985)
• 1947 Gerald L. Harding (1901–1979)
•  1947 Frank Moore Cross Jr. (1921–2012)
  
• 1950 Nelson Glueck (1900-1971)   
• Nabatean Civilization   
• 1951 Joseph P. Free (1911–1974)   
• 1965 Siegfried S. Horn (1908–1993)   
• Tall Hesban   
• 1967 Henk J. Franken (1917–2005)
• The Deir ‘Alla Inscription   
• 1972 Father Michele Piccirillo (1944–2008)   
• A Legacy of Early Byzantine Mosaics   

ANATOLIAN DISCOVERIES    221

• 1834 Charles Texier (1802–1871)   
• 1863–1874 John Turtle Wood (1821–1890)   
• 1876 Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933)
• 1880 Carl Humann (1839–1896)
  
• 1884 William Wright (1837–1899)   
• 1884 John Henry Haynes (1849–1910)   
• 1886-1911 William Ramsay (1851-1939)   
• 1893 Ernest Chantre (1843–1924)   
• 1906 Hugo Winckler (1863–1913)   
• 1910 Howard Crosby Butler (1872-1922)  
• 1917 Friedrich Hrozný (1879-1952)   
• 1956 George M. A. Hanfmann (1911–1986)      

GREECE EXCAVATIONS   247

• 1870 Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890)
• 1898 Rufus Richardson (1820–1898)
• 1911 Carl William Blegen (1887—1971)

MINOAN EXCAVATIONS    255

• 1900 Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941)   
• 1901 Harriet Boyd-Hawes (1871–1945)  
• 1907 David George Hogarth (1862–1927)
  

SYRIAN EXCAVATIONS    267

• 1928 Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer (1898–1982)  
• 1928 Ugarit Archive or Ras Shamra Tablets  
• 1929 Charles Virolleaud (1879–1968)   
• Ras Shamra Excavations
• 1930 Cyrus H. Gordon (1908–2001) 
• 1933 Andrè Parrot (1901–1980)
• 1974 Giovanni Petinato (1934-2011)
  
• 1974 Paolo Matthae (1942–)
• Ebla Tablets (ca. 2500–2250 BC) 

PALESTINIAN DISCOVERIES AND EXCAVATIONS    283

• 1836 Edward Robinson (1794–1863)   
• 1847 1880 Conrad Schick (1822–1901)   
• 1852–1888 Victor Guérin (1821–1890)   
• 1864 Sir Charles Wilson (1836–1905)   
• 1865 Palestine Exploration Fund  
• 1867 Charles Warren (1840-1927)  
• 1867 Warren’s Shaft  
• 1867 Warren’s Gate  
• 1867 Warren’s tunnel  
• 1871 Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau (1846–1923)  
• 1871, 1936 The Soreg Inscription  
• 1872 Claude Reignier Conder (1848-1910)  
• 1874–1877 Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916)  
• 1878 Wilhelm Fröhner (1834–1925)   
• 1878 The Nazareth Inscription
• 1882 Selah Merrill (1837–1909)   
• 1883 General Charles Gordon (1883)   
• 1889 Frederic George Kenyon (1863–1952)   
• 1893 William Francis Lynch (1801–1865)   
• 1899 Frederick J. Bliss (1859–1937)   
• 1908 R. A. S. MacAlister (1870–1950) 
• 1913 Raymond Weill (1874-1950)
  
• 1920 William F. Albright (1891–1971)
• 1923 J. Garrow Duncan (1872–1951)
  
• 1924 Shemuel Yeivin (1896–1982)
• 1925 Clarence Stanley Fisher (1876–1941)
  
• 1927 John Winter Crowfoot (1873-1959)   
• 1930–1936 John Garstang (1876–1956)   
• 1931–1935 Dame Kathleen Kenyon (1906–1978)  
• 1932 James Leslie Starkey (1895–1938)   
• The Lachish Letters   
• 1932 1941 Eleazar Lipa Sukenik (1889–1953)   

1948 THE NEW STATE OF ISRAEL    352

• 1936 Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995)   
• The Israeli Method of Archaeology   
• 1946 Roland de Vaux (1903–1971)   
• 1947 Dead Sea Scrolls   
• 1949 Michael Avi-Yonah (1904–1974)   
• 1950 James B. Pritchard (1909–1997)   
• 1953 Yohanan Aharoni (1919–1976)   
• 1956 George Ernest Wright (1897–1974)
  
• 1957 Yigael Yadin (1917–1984)   
• The Four Solomonic Gates (1957–1986)   
• 1960 Anson F. Rainey (1930–2011)
  
• 1961 Antonio Frova (1914–2007)   
• 1961 The Pontius Pilate Inscription   
• 1966 Avraham Biran (1909–2008)   
• 1993 The House of David Inscription   
• 1968 Vassilios Tzaferis (1936–2015)
• 1968 Gideon Foerster (1935–2020) 
• 1969 Nahman Avigad (1905–1992)   
• 1975 Hershel Shanks (1930–2021)   
• 1978 Ruth Amiran (1914–2005)
• 1978 Yigal Shiloh (1937–1987)
• 1978 Joseph A. Callaway (1920–1988)   
• Excavation of et-Tel (1978)  
• 1979–2003 David Livingston (1925–2005)   
• Excavation of Khirbet Nisya (1979)   
• 1980 Ephraim Stern (1934–2018)
• 1980 Adam Zertal (1936–2015)   
• 1990  Zvi Greenhut   
• Caiphas ossuary
• 1975 Ze’ev Mishel  
• The Kuntillet ‘Ajrud Pithoi (1975)   
• 1982 Moshe (1921–1999) & Trude Dothan (1922–2016)
• 1985 Bargil Pixner (1921–2002)    
• 1985 Lawrence Stager (1934–2017)
  
• 1990 Amnon Ben-Tor (1935–2023)   
• 1990 James F. Strange (1938–2018)   
• 1998 Yizhar HIirschfeld (1950–2006)
• 2005 Eilat Mazar (1956–2021)   
• Large Stone Structure    
• Hezekiah Bulla
  
• 2007 Ehud Netzer (1934–2010)   
• Masada
• Herodium
• NT Jericho
• Sepphoris (Zippori)
  

Notable Living Archaeologists   413

• William (Bill) Dever (1933-Present)   
• David Ussishkin (1935–Present)   
• Bryant G. Wood (1936–Present)   
  
• Alan R. Millard (1937–Present)   
  
• Edwin M. Yamauchi (1937–Present)
• Mansfred Bietak (1940–Present) 
• Ze'ev Herzog (1941–Present) 
• Eric M. Meyers (1942–Present)   
• Amihai Mazar (1942–Present)   
• Gabriel Barkay (1944–Present)   
• Leen Ritmeyer (1945–Present)   
• Zahi Abass Hawass (1947–Present)   
• Ronny Reich (1947– Present)
• Israel Finkelstein (1949– Present)
• Steven Collins (1951–Present)
• J. Randall Price (1951–Present)
• Jodi Magness (1956–Present)
• Yosef Garfinkel (1956–Present)
• Shimon Gibson (1958–Present) 
• Eric H. Cline (1960–Present)
• Celal Şimşek (1961–Present)
• David Scott Stripling (1962–Present)
• Steven M. Ortiz (1962–Present)
• Oded Lipschits (1962–Present)
• Oren Guitfeld (1968–Present)  

Bibliography 

Index of Subjects

485 Pages

Paperback Colour ISBN:  979-8321804315 ASIN: B0CZSDH6P4
Hard Cover Colour ISBN:  979-8321912096 ASIN: B0CZX3BJXP

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