Digging for God and country
Subtitle: exploration, archeology, and the secret struggle for the Holy Land, 1799-1917
By: Neil Asher Silberman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Archaeology -- Palestine -- History; Palestine -- History -- 1799-1917
Description: This volume presents a study of the beginnings of biblical archeology examines its historical background and the cultural conditions which influenced its development. The author knits together this period's events and trends, starting with Napoleon's campaign in the Middle East, to which he attached French scholars, and ending with the British conquest of Ottoman Palestine in 1917. He reports on the political in-fighting and covert plotting between rival nations and the individual battles between opposing scholars that led to many of archeology's greatest discoveries.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 203-217.
Includes index.