Bible, Map and Spade

The American Palestine Exploration Society, Frederick Jones Bliss and the Forgotten Story of Early American Biblical Archaeology

Rachel Hallote

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Year: 2006
• eBook ISBN:
  9781463210748
• Edition: 1

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.

Table 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