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Biblical History and Israel’s Past: The Changing Study of the Bible and History is unavailable, but you can change that!

Although scholars have studied ancient Israel for centuries, their purpose has for much of that time been primarily to illuminate and clarify the biblical story. In Biblical History and Israel’s Past Megan Bishop Moore and Brad E. Kelle describe how scholars have increasingly begun in recent years to tell the story of ancient Israel and its neighbors on its own terms, using both biblical and...

be apparent, especially in the work of younger scholars. Archaeologist William Dever, who promoted the adoption of new archaeology by archaeologists of the Holy Land, noted that by the 1970s several aspects of the new archaeology were being incorporated into the discipline. Perhaps most recognizable was the use of some of new archaeology’s field methods, which included collecting and analyzing artifacts such as animal bones (zooarchaeology) and plant remains (botanical archaeology) in order to help
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