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The roles that archaeology, history and the Biblical text should play in the study of ancient Israel are often debated by Biblical scholars and archaeologists. With expertise in Near Eastern archaeology, Hebrew Bible and classics, Anthony J. Frendo of the University of Malta discusses the interdisciplinary nature of Biblical archaeology in this excerpt from his book Pre-Exilic Israel, The Hebrew Bible, and Archaeology: Integrating Text and Artefact.1 Since archaeology and history constitute two sides of the same coin, then there must be an interface between them where they meet without getting confused with each other; indeed, they become one […]

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Endnotes

Eretz Israel, Volume 28 (The Teddy Kollek Volume) (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2007).

The book reviewed is James F. Strange, Thomas R.W. Longstaff and Dennis E. Groh, Excavations at Sepphoris, Volume 1: University of South Florida Probes in the Citadel and Villa (Leiden: Brill, 2006).

Ziony Zevit, The Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches (London: Continuum, 2001), p. 74.

Zevit, Religions of Ancient Israel, p. 75.