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Bible, Map and Spade
The American Palestine Exploration Society, Frederick Jones Bliss and the Forgotten Story of Early American Biblical Archaeology
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eBook - PDF
Bible, Map and Spade
The American Palestine Exploration Society, Frederick Jones Bliss and the Forgotten Story of Early American Biblical Archaeology
About this book
This volume resurrects the forgotten history of early American involvement in biblical archaeology. Frederick Jones Bliss, an American from a prominent missionary family, is central to the story as he was the first of any nationality to scientifically excavate the tells of Palestine.
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Information
Publisher
Gorgias PressYear
2006eBook ISBN
9781463210748Edition
1Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Previous Presentations of American Exploration of Palestine
- 3. Palestine, Land of Western Opportunity
- 4. Artists, Photographers, and Leisure Travelers in Palestine
- 5. Missionary Activity and the Beginnings of Archaeology in Palestine
- 6. The American Palestine Exploration Society
- 7. The Other Direction of American Biblical Scholarship Assyriology in the United States
- 8. Frederick Jones Bliss: Background and American Identification
- 9. The PEF Excavations at Tell el-Hesy
- 10. The Jerusalem Excavations
- 11. The Excavations in the Southern Shephelah and the End of Bliss’s Association with the PEF
- 12. Bliss’s Life and Career after the PEF
- 13. The Legacies of Frederick Jones Bliss: The American Entry into the Near East, the Founding of ASOR, and the Relationship of Archaeology to Politics in the Early Twentieth Century
- Appendix A: Letter from Frederick Bliss to his Family, including transcription of letter from PEF
- Appendix B: Letter from Frederick Bliss to Howard Bliss
- Appendix C: Letter from PEF to Frederick Bliss
- Appendix D: Timeline
- Bibliography
- Index