thought. This is as true of the naturalistic assumptions of modern science (including the dominant field of archaeology) as of the supernatural assumptions of Christian theology. Second, as John M. Monson has argued, “archaeology is a relatively young field of study, and its relationship to other disciplines is still very much in flux.”37 Young or old, scholarly fields demonstrate a striking degree of change, often revolutionary change, in terms of scholarly consensus. The shift from the assumption
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