Mythic Trope in the Autobiography of William Foxwell Albright

Students of Albright have accepted at face value Albright's own picture of his transformation from skepticism to conviction made irresistible by archaeological discoveries during his early tenure in Jerusalem. Yet Albright's personal correspondence reveals that he required no such conversi...

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Main Author: Long, Burke O. 1938- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Scholars Press 1993
In: The Biblical archaeologist
Year: 1993, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 36-45
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Summary:Students of Albright have accepted at face value Albright's own picture of his transformation from skepticism to conviction made irresistible by archaeological discoveries during his early tenure in Jerusalem. Yet Albright's personal correspondence reveals that he required no such conversion. What, then are we to make of Albright's act of remembering his passing from skepticism to conviction?
Contains:Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeologist
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3210359