Footnote 5 – Dever’s “Sermon on the Mound”

Compare Dever’s claim that “the result [of recent innovations] is already clearly something so radically different that we must distinguish it, for better or worse, as the ‘new archaeology’.” “The Impact of the ‘New Archaeology’ on Syro-Palestinian Archaeology,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 242 (1981), p. 18.