steve_bnk

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient...rew-bible.html

'...William Dever, Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, has investigated the archeology of the ancient Near East for more than 30 years and authored almost as many books on the subject. In the following interview, Dever describes some of the most significant archeological finds related to the Hebrew Bible, including his own hot-button discovery that the Israelites' God was linked to a female goddess called Asherah...'

A good overview of the archeologiocal evidence and interpretation.

The original video should be available somewhere.

outhouse

good link

I like most of Devers work

No Robots

Dever is emphatically anti-minimalist (see his What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?: What Archaeology Can Tell Us About the Reality of Ancient Israel), a fact that would hardly endear him to most frequenters of this den of iniquity.

outhouse

thats because the true minimalist are full of beans as YECers.

There is a happy medium. extremes dont work and never have in history.


Its also why I prefer Finklestein over Dever