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Sep 07, 2024
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ARGS 841 - Science, Spade and Scripture: History, Archaeology, and Religion in the Bible Lands3 credits
There has long been a close connection between the scientific and academic study of the Ancient Near East and the tradition of Biblical Studies. In this course we will examine the “triangular” relationship between the scientific evidence for social, political and religious life, the extra-Biblical texts (e.g. tablets and inscriptions) from the Biblical Lands of Canaan and Israel (along with Egypt and Mesopotamia), and the Bible text itself. Recent scholarship has called into question many of the basic assumptions of the original paradigm of “Biblical Archaeology”. And where most scholarship in the past has emphasized problems of a historical nature (e.g. the historicity of kings and various biblical figures), the field has since seen an increasing interest in anthropological issues (e.g. social structure and anthropology of religion). Today, matters involving science, anthropology, history, and religion loom outside of the academies and seminaries in the world of everyday lives, presenting us, the scholars, with the critical challenge of explaining the complex relationship between fact and faith.
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