The archaeology of ancient Israel is among the oldest historical archaeologies in practice ... Multi-disciplinary approaches that integrate improved readings of biblical texts, new recovery techniques ...
Jews are known as the "people of the book," but was literacy important in biblical times ... in the latest volume of the Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology, "the subject of literacy in ancient ...
Why? In this book, Daniel Pioske offers the first study of ruination in the Hebrew Bible. Drawing on scholarship in biblical studies, archaeology, contemporary historical theory, and philosophy, he ...