Archaeology and the Old Testament / / James B. Pritchard.

Archaeology is a science in which progress can be measured by the advances made backward into the past. The last one hundred years of archaeology have added a score of centuries to the story of the growth of our cultural and religious heritage, as the ancient world has been recovered from the sands...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©1958
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (263 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE OLD TESTAMENT
  • 1. THE SCIENCE OF PALESTINIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
  • 2. THE MAKING OF A MAP
  • 3. BAAL AND THE RELIGION OF CANAAN
  • 4. ASSYRIA, ISRAEL'S ENEMY
  • 5 . MYTH IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
  • 6. LAW AND WISDOM
  • POSTSCRIPT
  • GLOSSARY
  • SOURCES FOR ILLUSTRATIONS
  • INDEX
  • INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES