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reviewsa widevarietyoftheoriesconcerningthesettlementofCanaan,

drawstogetherarchaeologicaland literaryevidence, butacknowledges

radicallydifferingsynthesesbasedonthesamehistoricaldata.

Westenholz, Joan Goodnick. cd. Royal Cities ofthe Biblical \florid.
JenJsalem:BibleLandsMuseum,1996.Thislavishlyillustratedcataloguefor
the Bible LandsMuseum'sexhibit "Jerusalem-ACapital forAll Times,
Royal Citiesofthe Biblical World," containsa series ofessays on the
archaeologyandhistoryofeightNearEasterncities(Ur,Tanis,Akhenaten,
Jerusalem,Nineveh,Hatlusha,Babylon,andSusa).

MATERIALCULTUREANDNEWTESTMIE:-IT

BiblicalArchaeologySociety.NewTesfamentArchaeologySlideSet.Caption

bookby Dan P. Cok. Washington, D,C.: BiblicalArchaeologySociety,

1997. Despitethe tendenciestowardpositivismand romanticismin the
      accompanyingcaptions,thesetoffersabroadoverviewofsitesassociated
      withthedevelopmentandspreadofChristianity.Theslidescoverimages
      oflandscapes,architecture,and~lrtifactsfromGreco-RomanPalestineand
      sitesassociatedwiththemissionaryjourneysofPaul(asreconstructedfrom
      Actsandtheundisputedletters).

Biblical ArchaeologySociety.SupplementalNewTestamenfArchaeology

SlideScI.CaptionbookbyDanP.Cole.Washington,D,C.:BiblicalArchae-

ology Society, 1997. Thisset (l05slides) augmentsits predecessorby

addingmoreslidesillustratingGreco-HomanPalestine,thoughtheslides

thatmightdatetotheperiodofthehistoricalJesusareoutnumberedby

themanyimagesillustratingdevelopmentsinlnteancientChristianity(e.g.,

churcharchitecture,earlyChristianart).

Finegan,Jack. nJeArchaeologyoffbeNewTestament:tbeLifeofJesusand

theBeginningoftheEarlyChurch.Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,

1992.Oftenrakingthebiblicaltcxtat facevalue,thisbooksurroundsthe

evenlSreportedintheNewTestamentbookswithstones,coins,andpot-

tery,offeringa contextualizedviewortheNewTestamentstorieswithout

complicalingthehistoricityofthestoriesthemselves.

Freyne, Sean. "Archaeologyandthe HistoricalJesus." Pages 16o-BZin

GalileeandGospel:CollectedEssays.EditedbyS. Freyne.TObingen:Mohr

Siebeck,2000.Thiscircumspectdiscussionofthevalueofarchaeological

data in thereconstruction ofearliest Christian history wouldserve the

introductoryNewTestamentstudentwell.