The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy are perhaps the most distinguished lecture series in the world relating to archaeology and the Bible. Usually consisting of three lectures followed by their publication in book form, lecturers have included some of the greatest names in Bible scholarship as well as in the archaeology of the ancient Near East. The series was inaugurated in 1908 with the Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford, Canon S.R. Driver. His book of three lectures is titled Modern Research as Illustrating the Bible. Subsequent lecturers have included an array of scholarly stars […]
