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Leona Running has written an adoring biography of the dean of Biblical archaeologists, William Foxwell Albright.a Now Professor of Biblical Languages at Andrews University, Dr. Running served as secretary and assistant to the great American archaeologist during the last years of his life. The book, as she says in the preface, is “a labor of love undertaken in grateful homage by a devoted disciple toward a revered teacher—yet at the same time a genuine attempt to present objectively the man as he really was.” The biography’s major flaw is its failure to place Albright’s scholarly achievement within the context […]

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William Foxwell Albright, by Leona Glidden Running and David Noel Freedman (New York: Two Continents Publishing Group, Ltd. 1975), 447 pp., $15.00. Although David Noel Freedman is listed as the co-author, his contribution, as indicated in Dr. Running’s preface, consisted of critically reading various drafts and making helpful suggestions.