McRay, retired professor of NT at Wheaton College Graduate School, agrees and points out that: “We must also bear in mind that “biblical archaeology” does not have reference to an independent discipline nor to a methodology peculiar to the Bible. Like classical archaeology, biblical archaeology exists not as a separate discipline, but as a field of inquiry within the general discipline of archaeology.”11a It is not merely about pottery and digging but seeks to retrace man’s footsteps into the past