In the most recent Biblical Archaeological Review there is an interesting artic 'Ancient Israel Through a Social Scientific Lens' by Yogel Levin. There are no recent discoveries revealed in this article. It reviews the history of archeological investigations and divides them into periods of types of investigation and scholarship beginning ~1865 with 19th century archaeology and scholarship. In this article he reviews the book The Archaeology of the Israelite Society in Iron Age II by Avraham Faust and other works by Faust, which he considers the beginning of a new stage in Biblical Archaeology scholarship. This book is a sequel to the Israel's Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion, and Resistance, dealing with Iron Age I. His works outline all the previous research and studies, and then analyzes the typical homes and Judahite city. He also wrote; Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Period: The Archaelogy of Desolation.The article may viewed at if you are a member at:
If you do not have a subscription to the magazine or the online version, get one. The books are too pricy for me. I will cite some quotations from the article from the article for discussion in the next posts. The news is not good for Biblical Maximalists. On the other hand his work did confirm and relate to descriptions of life in the Old Testament.
If you do not have a subscription to the magazine or the online version, get one. The books are too pricy for me. I will cite some quotations from the article from the article for discussion in the next posts. The news is not good for Biblical Maximalists. On the other hand his work did confirm and relate to descriptions of life in the Old Testament.
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