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

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Biblical Archaeology Society. BiblicalArchaeology: From the Ground
Down,Parts1 <lnd2. 90 minutes.Washington,D.C.:BiblicalArchaeology
Society,1997.Thisseriesoftwovideosintroducepracticalaspectsoffield
archaeologyin the Near East,thehisLOlyofthediscipline,andseveral
majorfinds fromthelastcenturyofexcavation. Thenarrator, Hershel
Shanks, also introducesdiscrepanciesbetweenbiblicalclaimsandthe
archaeological record, lIsing the problem ofthe Israelite conquestof
Canaanashiscentralexample.
BiblicalArchaeologySociety.BiblicalArchaeologySlideSet.Captionbook
byDanP.Cole.Washington,D,C.:BiblicalArchaeologySociety,1997.This
sethassignificantoverlapwiththeMesopotamianArchaeologySlideSet
and thejerusalemArchaeologySlideSet, in whichsubgroupsofslides
ratherahisoricallyillustrdteremainsfromvariousculturalpractices(domes-
tic architecture, public architecture, writing, weapons, and tombs)
representedinawiderangeofchronologicalphasesfromtheBronzeAge
untiltheRomanperiod(134slides).
BiblicalArchaeologySociety.GalileeArchaeologySlideSel.Captionbookby
JamesF. Strange.Washington,D.C.: BiblicalArchaeologySociety,1997.In
thisset,slidesdepictarchitectureandlandscapesfromtheLowerGalilee,
UpperGalilee,andnOl1htrncoa:.talregion.Tht:illlagt::.(140:.lk.lt::.)dt:pkt
materialsthatdatefromtheNatufianuntiltheCrusaderperiod,sothatthe
emphasisfallsonlaiCancientChristiansites,thoughprehistoric(Chalcol-
ithic ossuaries) and Iron age (images of Hazor) slides balance the
distributionsomewhat.
BiblicalArchaeologySociety..!enfsalemArc/)clC:'OiogySel,Captionbookby
Dan BahatandDanP.Cole.W;:lshington,D.C.:BiblicalArchaeologySoci-
ery, 1997. The sel 041 slides) provides a representative sample of
architeclur'dl highlightsfromthebest-attestedphasesofthecity'shistory,
fromtheIronAgeuntiltheIslamicperiod.Thesetisparticularlystrongin
thelateIronAgeandRomanperiod.
Connolly,Peter,andHazelDodge.TheAncientOWLifeillClassicalAthens
andRome.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,1998,Pepperedwithplans,
reconslnlClions,andmaps,thisvolumeisparticularlyusefulforilluminating
theHellenisricandRomancontextsofformativeJudaismandChristianity.
Topicscoveredincludeci()'infraslrucrllrc,housing,anddailylife.
DeVries, LaMoine F. CitiesofIheBiblicalWorld:AllInlrodllcliolltoIhe
Archaeology,Geography, andHistoryofBiblicalSites. Peabody, Mass.:
Hendrickson.1997.Thisrichlyillustratedbookprovidesagoodcompanion