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Biblical Archaeology
Biblical Archaeology, Hebrew and Semitic Studies 451, meets on Thursday night between 6:30 and 9:15 in Room 2080 Grainger Hall. Jeffrey A. Blakely is the instructor for the class. Office hours will be Thursday afternoon from 2:00 to 3:00 at Café Espresso Royale and Thursday evening from 5:15 to 6:15 in the classroom should that be available, or, lacking that, outside and in front of the classroom. Other times can be arranged by calling my home number, 238-2227 (before 9 pm). I can also be reached by EMAIL at jblakely@wisc.edu. I can usually guarantee a response within 24 hours.
Each class consists of a 120-minute lecture, a 15-minute break and a 30-minute discussion covering the lecture, the assigned readings, and, if desired, optional readings. Grading for the course will be based on two papers, the first due 14 October and the second due 9 December, each, probably constituting 50% of the final course grade. The first paper will be a 20-page research paper. Either, compare and critically contrast methods, goals, assumptions, and conclusions of the following four books:
Robinson, Edward
1841 Biblical
Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai, and Arabia Petraea, 2 vols. London: John
Murray. DS 107 R65 1841 - Memorial Library.
Smith, George Adam
1972 The Historical
Geography of the Holy Land, 25th Edition. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter
Smith. DS
107 S6 1972 - Memorial Library.
Albright, William Foxwell
1960 The Archaeology
of Palestine.
Baltimore: Penguin Books. DS 108.9 A6 1960.
Wright, George Ernest
1957 Biblical
Archaeology.
Philadelphia: Westminster Press. BS 620 W7.
Or, compare the use of archaeology in the following works, both at the times they were written and from the perspective of today.
Ahlström, Gösta W.Gottwald, Norman K.
1979 The Tribes of
Yahweh: A Sociology of Liberated Israel, 1250-1050 BCE. London: SCM Press,
1979. BS 1199 S6 G67 - Memorial Library
Lapp, Paul W.
1969 Biblical
Archaeology and History. New York: World Publishing Company. BS 621
L35.
Mendenhall, George E.
1962 The Hebrew Conquest of Canaan. Biblical Archaeologist 25: 66-87. - Memorial
Library
Note, all students in Hebrew 451 are
expected to read the required readings for the Hebrew 241 course
and to participate actively in any class discussions. Should any
student in 451 miss more than one class
for anything but extraordinary reasons, or, the 451 students fail to
participate in whatever class
discussions that might develop giving evidence that they have studied
the required readings, then all
students in 451 will be required to take the final exam. This is
necessary to provide a basis for evaluating
exams given at a graduate level. The final exam would be due before
9:45 am Sunday 19 December. The final exam would be comprised of short
answer and essay questions. In this latter eventuality, each
paper and the final exam will be 33.33% of the final grade.