The Bible In The British Museum: Interpreting The Evidence
Publisher: Paulist Pr
Published: Sep 01, 2004
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780809142927
Description: "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. The Bible in the British Museum is a sourcebook for all students of the Bible and the ancient Near East."--BOOK JACKET.