Book Excerpt: The Shapira Affair

The late 1880’s in Jerusalem was an age of discovery. On the one hand, textual critics, anthropologists, geologists, and philosophers combined to pour scorn and derision on Scriptural traditions; on the other, archaeology was never so popular or well-supported financially as when it set out "to...

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Main Author: Allegro, John Marco 1923-1988 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Biblical Archaeology Society 1979
In: The Biblical archaeology review
Year: 1979, Volume: 5, Issue: 4
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Summary:The late 1880’s in Jerusalem was an age of discovery. On the one hand, textual critics, anthropologists, geologists, and philosophers combined to pour scorn and derision on Scriptural traditions; on the other, archaeology was never so popular or well-supported financially as when it set out "to prove the Bible right." Well-endowed archaeological missions flocked […]
ISSN:0098-9444
Contains:Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeology review