BBBW5300 8/21/08

Exploring Biblical World
1 Early Christian Beginnings
1.1 Helena
1.2 Origen
1.3 Eusebius
1.4 Jerome
1.5 Crusades
1.6 See ppt for details
2 Ottoman Empire 1600 to WWI owned the middle east
3 Rediscovery of Great Civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia in 19th Century
3.1 Ancient Languages
3.1.1 Multilingual Texts Discovered
3.1.2 Jean Francois Champollion opened up hieroglyphics
3.1.3 Rosetta Stone
3.1.4 Cuneiform
Tablets that have wedges
hundreds of symbols
3.2 Behistun Inscription of Darious I
3.2.1 Old Persian
3.2.2 Subtopic
3.3 Henry Rawlinson (1835-51)
3.4 Subtopic
3.5 Subtopic
4 Egypt = Pictographic Writings
5 From Grave Robbing to Research
5.1 Biblical Explorations of the Holy Land
5.1.1 Jerusalem
5.1.2 Edward Robinson, George Adam Smith, PEW
5.2 Sir Flinders Petrie
5.2.1 Stonehenge
5.2.2 Pyramids and Giza
5.2.3 Credited with coming to Palestine and excavating Tl el-hesi 1890
First scientific excavation of Holy Land
5.2.4 Utilized scientific disciplines in analysis
Chemist
Botanist
5.3 Heinrich Schlieman
5.3.1 Excavated Troy(Huyuk Hissarlick)
Had no technical process for excavating
5.3.2 German Pastor
5.3.3 Contributions
Tel - mound composed of successive layers of occupation through various periods of history
Stratigrophy -discernment and study of the interrelationship between layers of occupation of ancient site
Typology what an object should look like and how it should be used. Categorize types. relationship to form and function
5.3.4 Picked up one clue from Paul
5.4 Developments in Excavation Methodology
5.4.1 Early 1900s
Locus to Architecture (Samaria)
5.4.2 Mid 1900s
M Wheeler K Kenyon Method
Grid System
Jericho and Jerusalem
Locus to Baulk /Debris Layer
5.4.3 The science of digging a hole
5.5 Monuments confront Higher Criticism
5.6 “Treasure Hunting becomes science
5.7
6 Birth of Biblical Archeology
6.1 Albright v Alt
6.2 National Schools
6.2.1 American Schools of Oriental Research
6.2.2 Protestant German School
6.3 Albright and Yadin Method of Archeology
6.3.1 Ceramic Chronology -Systematic Typology of Pottery