Jacob L. Wright is associate professor of Hebrew Bible at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology and director of graduate studies in Emory’s Tam Institute of Jewish Studies. In an interview with TheTorah.com,1 Wright discusses the tendency to sensationalize Biblical archaeology and the impact this has had on the field. Q. What do you think could be the next great archaeological find? A. I am honestly not too interested in the next great archaeological find. Sensational finds in archaeology, at least in the archaeology of Iron Age Levant, are more often than not unsensational finds that are presented to […]
