Biblical Archaeology Review

(Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962), pp. 635–636

Anchor Bible, Vol. 1 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964).

Wellhausen, Prolegomena, pp. 318–319.

The edition here used is Julius Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel (Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1957).

See Otto Eissfeldt, The Old Testament: An Introduction, trans. P.R. Ackroyd (New York: Harper and Row, 1965), pp. 160–162. Eissfeldt’s treatment of this period of Biblical criticism is fuller than those of more recent introductions to the Bible.

Cf. the somewhat similar and different perspective of Jack M. Sasson, “On Choosing Models for Recreating Israelite Pre-Monarchic History,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 21 (1981), pp. 8–9.

William Foxwell Albright, From the Stone Age to Christianity (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1940). An eloquent statement of Albright’s faith comes in the last sentence of the volume: “We need reawakening of faith in the God of the majestic theophany on Mount Sinai, in the God of Elijah’s vision at Horeb, in the God of the Jewish exiles in Babylonia, in the God of the Agony at Gethsemane...” (from the second edition [Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1957], p. 403).

Aspects of Albright’s life and thought are treated by Leona Glidden Running and David Noel Freedman, William Foxwell Albright: A Twentieth Century Genius (New York: Morgan Press, 1975); and, in a very different way, in Burke O. Long, Planting and Reaping Albright: Politics, Ideology, and Interpreting the Bible (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997).

For these developments, see Katherine Eugenia Jones, “Backward Glance: Americans at Nippur,” BAR 24:06 and Mogens Trolle Larsen, “The ‘Babel/Bible’ Controversy and Its Aftermath,” in Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, Vol. 1, ed. Jack M. Sasson, et al. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1995), pp. 97–99.

Lyell’s Principles of Geology appeared in the years 1830–1833.