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Stephens, William H. n)eNew Testamellt World in Pictures.Nashville:

Broadman, 1987.Thisvolumecomprises 884 blackandwhitephotos::mel

fourcolorplates,largelyfrommuseummaterials.Themajordivisionsare:

TheEmperors,Military, People,City, Business, ProfessionsandTrades,

Religion, LeisureTime,Home::Ind Hearth.Thevolumedraws together

imagesfrom thebroadexpanseoftheearlyempire,thoughit isbiased

towardthewesternprovinccs,andsomeoftheobjectsdearlypostdatcthe

periodofthedevelopmentofNewTestamellltraditions.

Str::mge,Jamesf."SomeImplicationsofArchaeologyforNewTestament
Studies."Pnges23-59inWhatHasArchaeologytoDowithFaitb?Editedby
J H.CharleswonhandW. P. Weaver.Philadelphia:TrinityPressInterna-
tional, 1992.Offeringapragmaticperspectiveonthelimitsandthevalue
ofarchaeologyforunderstandingtheBibleandforfaith, theauthorurges
theintegrationofarchaeologicaldatainreconstructionofearliestChristian
history,sothatatexturedhistoricalperspectivemightenrichthepOSSibili-
tiesforunderstandingformativeChristiantexts.

Unger, Merrill Frederit:k. ArchaeologyandtheNew Testament. Grand
Rapids:Zondervan, 1962.AliteralistviewofNewTestament textsallows
rhpalithoI'toselt'clonly'lrrh'lcologic:llevidenC(~th:u,lppe:lrStoillllmin:lI{'
thepicturedr::l\vninthetexts.Thehookis ade:lrcxampleofanapproach
thathasbeen,forthemostpart,abandoned,andit servesasanillustrative
counterexampletomore recent work, suchas that ofJonathanHeed,
JamesStrange,orEricMeyers.

ONELECTHONICRE."'OlIIKES

Silberman.NeilA. "DigitizingtheAncient NearEast:cr)-Il.QMSandWorld

WideWebSites." Arch 48 (996):H6-B9.Theauthorprovidesa critical

reviewofcasilyaccessibleCf)-KO,\lelectronicbooksandWorldWide\X'eb

sitesgermanetocontextualizingbiblic::tlandparabiblicalliter::lturcwithin

thematerialcultureoftheancientNearEasl.Programslhatgeneratetai-

lored Bible maps receive special aHcntion, :md there is :l positive

assessmentoftheeleclronicbook,DeadSeaScrollsRevealed.

Younger,John."CaughtintheNCI:ElectronicOpportunitiesinArchaeol-

ogy."SA 59 (1996): 191-93.Thisisoneteacher'snarrativeofanattemptto

encouragestudentstoeng:lgeelectronicsourccsintheirowncriticalreflec-

tiononmaterialculture.Students'workincludedthreeprojects.Inthefirst,

studentswere<Is'<;ignedtodesigna courseoftheirown,relyingona slide

collection.TheSC'condprojectrequiredstudent";tolocatcsitespcn:lining