TY - BOOK AU - Freedman,David Noel AU - Wright,G.Ernest AU - Campbell,Edward F. TI - The Biblical archaeologist reader SN - 0891300015 (v. 1) : AV - BS 621 .F732 1975 U1 - 220.9/3 PY - 1975///] CY - [Missoula, Mont.] PB - American Schools of Oriental Research : distributed by Scholars Press KW - Bible KW - Antiquities KW - Christian antiquities N1 - Vol. 2 edited by E. F. Campbell and D. N. Freedman; Reprint of vols. 1 and 2 published in 1961 and 1964 respectively by Anchor Books, Garden City, N.Y; Includes bibliographical references; Vol. 1. Exploring southern Palestine (the Negev) / Nelson Glueck -- The achievement of Nelson Glueck / G. Ernest Wright -- Is Glueck's aim to prove that the Bible is true? / G. Ernest Wright -- The writing of an Old Testament book / J. Philip Hyatt -- Has archaeology found evidence of the flood? / John Bright -- Sodom and Gomorrah / J. Penrose Harland -- The manna of Sinai / F.S. Bodenheimer -- Musical instruments of Israel / Ovid R. Sellers -- What were the cherubim? / W.F. Albright -- A new letter in Aramaic, written to a Pharaoh of Egypt / John Bright -- King Joiachin in exile / W.F. Albright -- The Babylonian Chronicle / David Noel Freedman -- New light on the Elephantine colony / Emil G. Kraeling -- The significance of the temple in the ancient Near East. The Egyptian temple : with particular reference to the Theban temples of the Empire Period / Harold H. Nelson -- The Mesopotamian temple / A. Leo Oppenheim -- The temple in Palestine-Syria / G. Ernest Wright -- Temple, synagogue, and church / Floyd V. Filson -- The priestly tabernacle / Frank M. Cross, Jr. -- Synagogues in Palestine / Herbert Gordon May -- The earliest Christian books / C.C. McCown -- Exploring the manuscripts of Sinai and Jerusalem / Kenneth W. Clark -- The geography of Ezekiel's river of life / William R. Farmer -- Leviathan and the beast in Revelation / Howard Wallace -- The Gnostic library of Chenoboskion / Victor Roland Gold -- New radiocarbon method for dating the past / Donald Collier -- Date of cloth from Qumran, Cave 1 / O.R. Sellers -- Some radiocarbon dates / G. Ernest Wright. Vol. 2. I. Cities and lands of Israel's neighbors. Mari / George E. Mendenhall -- Biblical customs and the Nuzu tablets / Cyrus H. Gordon -- Ugaritic studies and the Bible / H.L. Ginsberg -- The civilization of the Edomities / Nelson Glueck -- Philistine coffins and mercenaries / G. Ernest Wright -- The material civilization of the Ammonites / George M. Landes -- The Kingdom of David and Solomon in its contact with Egypt and Aram Haharaim / Abraham Malamat -- Frankincense and myrrh / Gus W. Van Beek -- he Aramean Empire and its relations with Israel / Benjamin Mazar -- From Qarqar to Carchemish: Assyria and Israel in the light of new discoveries / William A. Hallo. II. Major excavated cities of Palestine. Excavations at Hazor, 1955-1958 / Yigael Yadin -- The discoveries at Megiddo, 1935-1939 / G. Ernest Wright -- New light on Solomon's Megiddo / Yigael Yadin -- Samaria / G. Ernest Wright -- Shechem in extra-biblical references / Walter Harrelson -- The place of Shechem in the Bible / Bernhard W. Anderson -- The excavation of Shechem and the Biblical tradition / Edward F. Campbell, Jr., and James F. Ross -- Judean Lachish / G. Ernest Wright. III. Prominent cities of the New Tewtestament Period. Antioch-on-the-Orontes / Bruce M. Metzger -- Ephesus in the early Christian era / Merrill M. Parvis -- Ephesus and the New Testament / Floyd V. Filson -- Laodicea and its neighbors / Sherman E. Johnson -- Athens, "city of idol worship" / Oscar Broneer -- The Apostle Paul and the Isthmian Games / Oscar Broneer ER -