The Bible in the British Museum: Interpreting the Evidence

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Paulist Press, 2004 - Religion - 136 pages
The links between archaeology and the Bible have fascinated generation of archaeologists and biblical scholars who seek evidence to support events described in the Bible. The British Museum's collections include a wealth of incised objects, scripts, and pictorial reliefs that provide just such evidence. For this important book, the author has selected seventy-two such "documents," mainly from Western Asia, with some examples included from Greece, Egypt, and Asia Minor, dating from the period of the Patriarchs to New Testament times (c. 2000 CE to 100 AD). The transliterates and translates the ancient texts, which include documents in Cuneiform, Aramaic, and Hebrew, and discussed the contribution they make to our knowledge of the culture and history of Biblical times. THE BIBLE IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM will serve as a valuable sourcebook for all students of the Bible and of the ancient Near East.
 

Contents

Introduction
9
ANCIENT TEXTS
13
THE BIBLICAL WORLD
15
Chronological Charts and Map
17
The Documents 172
23
Further Reading
124
Index of Biblical References
131
Concordance
133
General Index
134
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Page 9 - Egypt, Palestine, and other Biblical Lands, the promotion of the study of the Antiquities of those countries, and the preservation of a continuous record of discoveries now or hereafter to be in progress".
Page 12 - I did little or nothing, but in 1866, seeing the unsatisfactory state of our knowledge of those parts of Assyrian history which bore upon the history of the Bible, I felt anxious to do something towards settling a few of the questions involved.
Page 11 - Phoenicia and Sinai, he details other areas from which interesting and important material is to be expected, and continues, 'One of these is Palestine, whence it is much to be regretted so few, if any, monuments have been obtained which can be referred to the days of the Jewish monarchy - most of those discovered having inscriptions which do not date anterior to the Roman Empire'.
Page 11 - Palestine, whence it is much to be regretted so few, if any, monuments have been obtained, which can be referred to the days of the Jewish monarchy — most of those hitherto discovered having inscriptions which do not date anterior to the Roman Empire.
Page 12 - This is in agreement with what appears from a careful study of the Old Testament itself. There was no extermination of the Canaanites on the scale represented in the later strata of the Book of Joshua, the writers of which, looking back upon the past, pictured the Israelite occupation of Canaan...

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