Brooke Knorr (USA. William Penn University)

American Biblical Archaeology and Zionism

The Politics of Objectivity from William F. Albright to William G. Dever

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relationship between several of the most prominent American biblical archaeologists and Zionism, exploring their views on objectivity versus relativism. Suitable for students and scholars of Biblical and Near Eastern archaeology, American religious history, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

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Produktdetails

• Copenhagen International Seminar
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 260g
• ISBN-13: 9781032283210
• ISBN-10: 1032283211
• Artikelnr.: 71642181

Autorenporträt

Brooke Sherrard Knorr is Assistant Professor of History at William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa. She earned a Ph.D. in American religious history at Florida State University and an MA in religious studies at the University of Iowa.

Inhaltsangabe

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 G. 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.