Biblical Archaeology: Documents for the British Museum
Biblical Archaeology: Documents for the British Museum

Author: T. C. Mitchell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988-07-29

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9780521368674

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"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."--Back cover.

The Bible in the British Museum
The Bible in the British Museum

Author: T. C. Mitchell

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780809142927

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The links between archaeology and the Bible have fascinated generations of scholars who seek documentation of events narrated in the Bible. The British Museum's collections include numerous inscriptions, pictorial reliefs and other objects which provide such evidence. For this book the author has selected seventy-two 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 extracts from 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.

Through the British Museum: with the Bible
Through the British Museum: with the Bible

Author: Brian H. Edwards

Publisher: Dayone C/O Grace Books

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781903087541

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This guide centres on those items in the British Museum that are related to the history recorded in the Bible. You will be introduced to rulers, empires and cultures that, without the careful work of many scholars, would have been lost for ever. In this guide you have all that you need to make your tour both enjoyable and relevant. The past is brought to light in front of you.

Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the Biblical Scholar in the Nineteenth Century
Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the Biblical Scholar in the Nineteenth Century

Author: Gregory L. Cuéllar

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-08-23

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 3030240282

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Since the modern period, the field of biblical studies has relied upon libraries, museums, and archives for its evidentiary and credentialing needs. Yet, absent in biblical scholarship is a thorough and critical examination of the instrumentality of the discipline’s master archives for elite power structures. Addressing this gap in biblical scholarship lies central to this book. Interrogated here is a premier repository or master archive of the discipline: the British Museum. Using an assemblage of critical theories from archival discourse to postcolonial studies, space theory to governmentality studies, the focal point of this book is at the intersections of the Museum’s rise to scientific prominence, the British Empire, and the conferring of scientific authority to modern biblical critics in the nineteenth century. Gregory L. Cuéllar initiates a season of historicization of the master archives of biblical studies and archival criticism.

Regarding the Dead
Regarding the Dead

Author: Alexandra Fletcher (Museum curator)

Publisher: British Museum Research Public

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780861591978

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A key publication on the British Museum's approach to the ethical issues surrounding the inclusion of human remains in museum collections and possible solutions to the dilemmas relating to their curation, storage, access management and display.

The British Museum’s Excavations at Nineveh, 1846–1855
The British Museum’s Excavations at Nineveh, 1846–1855

Author: Geoffrey Turner

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-10-12

Total Pages: 814

ISBN-13: 9004435379

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Geoffrey Turner's definitive study of the mid-19th century excavations by the British Museum at the Assyrian site of Nineveh documents the complete history of these excavations and provides detailed reconstructions of the architecture and sculpture in the palace of Sennacherib.

The Pitcher is Broken
The Pitcher is Broken

Author: Steven W. Holloway

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1995-05-01

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0567636712

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This is a volume of tributes and essays in memory of G÷sta W. Ahlstr÷m, Professor of Old Testament in the Divinity School and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department of the University of Chicago. Nineteen essays written by former students and colleagues deal with the history and archaeology of Iron Age Palestine and the ancient Near East, the Deuteronomistic History, and the history of Old Testament studies. Six tributes read at his memorial service, his final bibliography and a list of the dissertations he chaired combine to yield a montage of the scholar as teacher, character, and friend.