Biblical archeology
The biblical archeology was an activity of Archéologie consistent in the study of passed of the Holy Land (current Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan), and more generally of all the territories concerned with the Bible (Egypt, Mésopotamie), through the reading of the Bible. Appeared in the years 1930 pennies the impulse of William F. Albright, this discipline saw being born quantity from Explorateurs, of which Yigael Yadin in the years 1950, or Benjamin Mazar, which surveyed the Holy Land with the research of the various places mentioned in the Bible.
The biblical archeology is not considered any more, by the majority of the current archeologists, like a scientific activity. The reason is that this research is préorientée by what is written in the Bible: according to his own founders, one works a pickaxe in a hand and the Bible in the other .
The modern archeology is a scientific discipline, the object of research is not préorienté there.
As from the years 1970, after many vexations as for attributions and to the datings which appeared false of more than one century, biblical archeology yielded the place to the archeology very short, practiced according to the scientific methods of use in the other countries. Currently, Eilat Mazar is one of the rare people to still practice biblical archeology.
The review " Biblical Archæologist" , which accommodates professional publications, name changed and was taken again, since 1998, under the title " Near Eastern Archeology". The review " Biblical Archæology Review" is a general public publication which aims at rendering comprehensible the Bible: it does not have any scientific claim and any professional aiming.
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