Biblical Archaeology Review

Biblical Archaeology Review is the flagship publication of the Biblical Archaeology Society. For more than 40 years it has been making the world of archaeology in the lands of the Bible come alive for the interested layperson. Full of vivid images and articles written by leading scholars, this is a must read for anyone interested in the archaeology of the ancient Near East.

Endnote 32 - How Mute Stones Speak: Interpreting What We Dig Up

Even William G. Dever, once a proud and enthusiastic advocate of American-style “New Archaeology” in Palestine, admits now that “we also became enamoured of technical advances in archaeology for their own sake, and got bogged down in a morass of data often collected with no notion of what we were trying to learn,” in “Biblical Archaeology: Death and Rebirth,” in Biblical Archaeology Today, 1990, Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Biblical Archaeology (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1993), p. 707.

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