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

214 BETWEENTEXTANDARTIFACT

Matthews,VictorH.,andJamesc.Moyer."BibleAtlases:WhichOnesAre

Best?"SA 53 (990):220-31.TheauthorsexaminereferenceBibleatlases

andstudentBibleatlases,evaluatingtheusefulnessandaccuracyofmaps,

gazeneers,captions,and charts. Theauthors sharea concernthat the

atlasesreflectinformationgainedfromrecentarchaeologicaldiscoveries.

70eMoodyA//asojBibleLands, FactsonFile AtlasoftheBib/e, and

Harper'sAtlasa/theBibleraledhighlyoncontentandpresentalion.

TEXTBOOKSANDREADERS

AJbright,WilliamF. TbeArchac'''OlogyofPalestine.NewYork:Pelican,1%1.

Convincedtoa surprisingdegreeofthehistoricalreliabilityofbiblicalliter-

ature,theamhorengagesarchaeologyoftenasa resourceforexpanding

onthebiblicalportrait.Albright'sknowledgeofepigraphyandancientlan-

guagesenhancethevolume,whichstandsasanimportantinstallationin

thedevelopmcntofthediscipline.

Ben-Tor, Amnon., cd. TheArchaeologyojAncientIsrael. Translated by

R.Greenberg.NewHaven:YaleUniversityPress,1994.Thiscomprehensive

introductiontothetopicincludescontributionsfromnotedscholars,eachof

whichincludesanoverviewoftheoccupationalhistoryofSyro-Palestine

andhighlights3rtif3CLSfrompublic3ndprivatelife, interculturalrelation-

ships,andlong-termculturalchange.Thevividphotographsandmapsare

well~integratedwiththesophisticated,straightforwardcommentaIY.

Currid,JohnD.DoiflgArchaeologyintheLandojtheBible:A BasicGuide.
GrandRapids:Baker,1999.Thisbookisdesignedtoexplainthcbasicprin-
ciplesofarchaeologytonewcomcrstothesubject.Theauthordiscusses
theformationandexcavationoftellsites;thesurveying,excavation,and
excavationofsites;andtheinterpretationofthestrdtifiedresultsofexcava-
tion.Therearerichexamplestoillustratebuildingmaterialsandpauerns,
and there is an application ofthe principlesto the site at Bethsaida.
Despitesomeinconsistencies,thevolume isa valuableintroductionto
archaeologythatdrdwsentirelyfrom thecultureandhistoIY ofancient
Israel.

Drinkard,Joel F.,Jr., Gerald L. MaHingly,andJ. Maxwell Miller, eds.
Benchmarks in Time and Culture: AnIntroduCtiOll to Palestinian
ArchaeologyDedicatedtojosephA.Cal/away.SBLABS1.Atlanta:Scholars
Press,1988.Thisseriesofessays,designedasa textbook,isa Festschrift
inhonorofarchaeologistandbiblicalscholarJosephA. Callaway.The
twenty-threeessaysprovideinformationinthe historyofthedevelop-
ment of Western archaeological schools in Israel, the methods and