Between Text and Artifact: Integrating Archaeology in Biblical Studies Teaching (Archaeology and Biblical Studies)

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Week1: GettingStarted:"WhatAreWeDoing?"
Class1: IntrOOllctiontoFieldExcavation
Class2: RecognizingTypicalFinds
Class3: HistoryofArchaeologyinSyro-Palestine(PanI)
Class4: HisloryofArchaeologyinSyro-Palestine(Part2)
WeekendTour:Beth She'arim,Megiddo,Cacsarca

Week2: Method:"WhyDoWeDigThisWay?"
ClassI:StratificationandStratigraphy
Class2: BronzeandIronAgeSyro-Palestine
Class3: PersianandHellenisticSyro-Palestine
Class4: RomanandByzantineSyro-Palestine
WeekendTour:Jerusalem(includingMasadaandQumran)

Week3: Interpret.ation:"WhatCanWeDowithThisInformation?"
Class1:AncientSocieties:Technologies
Class2: AncientSocieties:Gender(Pan'I)
Class3: AncientSocieties:Stratification
Class4: AncientSocieties:DeathandtheDead
\'(/'eekendTour:SeaofGalilee,C:lpernaum,G:lmb,Kursi

Week4:History:"WhatAretheBigQuestionsHerer
Class1: EarlyIsrael:IssuesofChronology
Class2: EarlyJudaism:TheRabbis,Hellenism,andSepphoris
Class3: EarlyChristianity:Jesusthel-lislOricalGalilean
Class4: EarlyJudaism~lndChristianityinGalilee
WeekendTour:Jerusalem

Week5: Wrap-Up:';WhatHaveWeAccomplished?"
Class1: ResultsfromAreasofExcavation
Class2: IntegrationandInterpretation
Class#3: ObjectivesforNextSeason
Tour:Jordan(Amman,Petra,Madaba,MountNebo)