Books in Brief

What Has Archaeology To Do With Faith?

eds. J. H. Charlesworth and W. P. Weaver (Philadelphia: Trinity Press, 1992) 128 pp., $13.95

Is archaeology’s primary function to corroborate the Bible, or do archaeology and the Bible shed little or no light on each other? The contributors to this volume take the middle ground on this longstanding question. They all agree there is historical substance to some Biblical accounts that can be illuminated by archaeological data, either by filling in the social context, or by revealing the meaning of a text, or by providing (though only rarely) evidence for the historical reality of Biblical events.