In a column that appeared in a popular archaeology magazine, respected Professor of Hebrew Bible Ron Hendel provides a succinct definition of biblical archaeology: ‘Biblical archaeology,’ says Hendel, ‘involves the rigorous correlation of textual data from the Bible and material evidence from archaeology.’1 Quite so. If archaeologists and historians could not find correlation between archaeology and the biblical text, there would be no such thing as ‘biblical archaeology’. But of course
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