A Biblical Guide to The Metropolitan Museum: The Ancient Near Eastern Gallery

This guide will introduce the art and science of biblical archaeology, their contributions to biblical studies as well as their limitations as a tool to reconstruct the past. Learn about the history of the ANE, their myths and religions, as well as the contemporary tensions between conservative-confessional and liberal-critical prejudices and biases in their interpretations of the Bible in the light of archaeology. We will examine a selection of important artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum's ANE collection relevant to the Jewish Bible with reference to their geohistorical and theological contexts. The Academy for Christian Thought Museum Guided Tours include visits to the Egyptian, Syrian, Assyrian-Babylonian, Persian and Greco-Roman Galleries of the Metropolitan and the Brooklyn Museum as well as the Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History.