American Biblical Archaeology and Zionism

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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.