The Bible in the British Museum: Interpreting the evidence - Softcover

Mitchell, T.C.; British Museum

Softcover

ISBN 10: 071411698X ISBN 13: 9780714116983

Publisher: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications, 1988

Synopsis

The links between archaeology and the Bible have fascinated generations of archaeologists and biblical scholars who seek documentation of events narrated in the Bible. The British Museum's collections include numerous inscribed objects, scripts and pictorial reliefs which provide such evidence. There is, for example, a Babylonian clay tablet which records Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Jerusalem in 597 BC, as narrated in the book of Jeremiah. For this book the author has selected over seventy such 'documents', mainly from Western Asia, with some examples included from Greece, Egypt and Asia Minor, dating from the period of the Patriarchs to the New Testament times, c. 2000 BC to c. AD 100. He transliterates and translates the ancient texts, which include Cuneiform, Aramaic and Hebrew, and discusses the contribution they make to our knowledge of the culture and history of biblical times. Each object is illustrated in black and white.

About this title

About the Author:

T.C. Mitchell is former Keeper of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum.

Review:

""A good book to stimulate anyone whose interest in the Bible has just begun."

About this edition

• Publisher: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 071411698X
• ISBN 13: 9780714116983
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112