Early Explorers of Bible Lands

Résumé du livre

Acclaimed scholar Jack Lewis narrates the lives and contributions of tea nineteenth-century explorers of Bible lands whose work set the stage for modern biblical archaeology. Here are the stories of John Lewis Burckhardt, William Francis Lynch, James T. Barclay, Selah Merrill, and other explorers. Most of these men did not engage in archaeology as we commonly define it today. They were not excavators, but students of geography, nature, languages, customs, traditions, and the Bible-all of which are vital to a more refined understanding of the Bible. Their pursuits laid the groundwork for the more comprehensive and interdisciplinary studies that have eventually become the trademark of both biblical studies and the archaeology of the biblical world. As Lewis shows, we owe these explorers a great debt of gratitude for their pioneering work. Book jacket.