1st Edition
American Biblical Archaeology and Zionism The Politics of Objectivity from William F. Albright to William G. Dever
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.
Biography
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.
