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red cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. scratchy spot spine bottom from old sticker, couple of coffee type spots on spine, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition . first printing (same date on title & copyright pg. & nap) . xvi+342p. 25 b&w plates. 3 b&w figures. archaeology. ancient history. art history. religion. history of judaism. ancient israel. biblical studies. history of christianity. middle east history. history of canaan. history of phoenicia. egyptian history. babylonian history. assyrian history. ~ For more than a hundred years the lands of the Fertile Crescent have been the subject of archaeological investigation. Excavations at many important sites have enabled scholars to recover the most important ancient civilizations of mankind. 'While these have importance in their own right, public interest in this area and its history has always been especially strong because of its close association with the Bible. Much of the new material, however, remains inaccessible to the general reader. But between the extremes of the scholar's scholar trapped in his own specialized language, and the professional popularizer who cannot control his sources of information or distinguish fantasy from fact, there is happily an occasional writer whose work is both scholarly and readable. The journal The Biblical Archaeologist has been successful in discovering such scholar~authors, and some of the most important of their work has been brought together in this volume. The articles selected center in the relationship between biblical and pagan religion in the ancient world. Articles like those on Manna and The Musical Instruments of Israel, on the Flood and on Sodom and Gomorrah, bear closely on the Bible; others, like those on the pagan religions and on the techniques of carbon dating, are indirectly related thereto. All of them are at once authoritative and very readable. There are sixteen pages of illustrations . Contributors = W. F. Albright, The Johns Hopkins University~ F. S. Bodenheimer, The Hebrew University~John Bright, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond ~Kenneth W. Clark, Duke University ~Donald Collier, University of Chicago~ Frank M. Cross, Jr., Harvard Univeristy ~ William R. Farmer, Southern Methodist University ~Floyd V. Filson, McCormick Theological Seminary ~David Noel Freedman, Pittsburgh Seminary ~Nelson Glueck, Hebrew Union College/ Jewish Institute of Religion ~Victor Roland Gold, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary ~J. Penrose Harland, University of North Carolina ~ J. Philip Hyatt, Vanderbilt University~ Emil G. Kraeling, Union Theological Seminary, New York ~Herbert Gordon May, Oberlin. College ~C. C. McCown, Pacific School of Religion ~ Harold H. Nelson, University of Chicago ~ A. Leo Oppenheim, University of Chicago ~ Ovid R. Sellers, McCormick Theological Seminary ~Howard Wallace, Dubuque Theological Seminary ~G. Ernest Wright, Harvard University.
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