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Author Knorr, Brooke Sherrard

Title American Biblical Archaeology and Zionism The Politics of Objectivity from William F. Albright to William G. Dever
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (161 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Producing Objective Facts: The Scientific Fundamentalism of William Foxwell Albright's Biblical Archaeology -- 2 Political Implications of Objectivity and Relativism in the Works of William Foxwell Albright and Millar Burrows -- 3 The Baltimore School and the Formation of the "Judeo-Christian Tradition" -- 4 "The Compulsion of Geopolitics": Nelson Glueck's Shift from Favoring Cultural Hybridity to Jewish Nationalism
5 Relativism as Bad Religion: Objective Knowledge of God's Mighty Acts in the Work of George Ernest Wright -- 6 Mystical Unification or Ethnic Domination?: The Six-Day War and Paul Lapp's Rebellion against Objectivity and Zionism -- 7 "No Preconceptions": William G. Dever and the Pursuit of Objectivity -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Copenhagen International Seminar Series -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject American Schools of Oriental Research-History
Bible-Antiquities
Archaeology-Political aspects-United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000812664
1000812669