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Albright Shrugged: The Haupt/Albright Relationship

This blog is the fourth in a series of four blogs on the position of William Foxwell Albright as the dean of American Biblical archaeology. The current issue of NEA includes the article “Dawn and Descent: Social Network Analysis and the ASOR Family Trees” by Diane Harris Cline, Eric H. Cline, and Rachel Hallote (NEA […]

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Albright Should Have Attended Penn

This blog is the third in a series of four on the position of William Foxwell Albright as the dean of American Biblical archaeology. The current issue of NEA includes the article “Dawn and Descent: Social Network Analysis and the ASOR Family Trees” by Diane Harris Cline, Eric H. Cline, and Rachel Hallote (NEA 87:2 […]

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Teaching the Bible in Public Schools (Continued): ASOR, BAS, SBL

Sometimes American history, the biblical, and politics overlap. I try to maintain separate distribution lists and not mix-up my blogs. But at times the real world prevents that. On July 9, 2024, the American Historical Association has issued a statement condemning the recent order from the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters on […]

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Albright and Delitzsch: Their Pre-Academic Relationship

The ASOR Family Tree: William Foxwell Albright :An Elaboration on “Dawn and Descent: Social Network Analysis and the ASOR Family Trees” The current issue of NEA includes the article “Dawn and Descent: Social Network Analysis and the ASOR Family Trees” by Diane Harris Cline, Eric H. Cline, and Rachel Hallote (NEA 87:2 2024:122-131). The article […]

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The ASOR Family Tree: William Foxwell Albright

The ASOR Family Tree: William Foxwell Albright An Elaboration on “Dawn and Descent: Social Network Analysis and the ASOR Family Trees” The current issue of NEA includes the article “Dawn and Descent: Social Network Analysis and the ASOR Family Trees” by Diane Harris Cline, Eric H. Cline, and Rachel Hallote (NEA 87:2 2024:122-131). The article […]

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The Battle of Kadesh: Meaning for Israel and the Bible

The Battle of Kadesh: Meaning for Israel and the Bible Paper presented November 16, 2023 Annual Conference of ASOR The Battle of Kadesh in year 5 of Ramses II between Egypt and the Hittites is one of the best documented battles in the ancient Near East. Records of the battle exist in multiple copies and […]

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Israelite Writing: From Hyksos to Hellenistic

The Society of Biblical Literature recently reviewed Back to Reason: Minimalism in Biblical Studied by Niels Peter Lemche. According to reviewer Susanne Scholz: To him, the historical-literary situation is obvious and undisputable. The Hebrew Bible is Hellenistic literature. Several chapters of the book target scholars who have participated in the minimalist/maximalist debate. Simply based on […]

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“Exodus, Conquest, and the Alchemy of Memory” by Ron Hendel

The contribution “Exodus, Conquest, and the Alchemy of Memory” by Ron Hendel to the new book Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of P. Kyle McCarter obviously is about the Exodus. Ron and I were contributors to the recent book of Five Views the Exodus (Jamzen, 2021). Much of what he and I […]

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“Joseph and His Allies in Genesis 29-30” by Daniel E. Fleming and the Exodus

“Joseph and His Allies in Genesis 29” by Dan Fleming is a contribution to the new book Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of P. Kyle McCarter Jr. Previously I examined the contribution of Heath Dewrell on “Yahweh the Destroyer.” His scholarship complemented the existence of an historical Exodus although in his article […]

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