>Kris Hirst is writing a history of archaeology. In part 3 of the series, she writes about “The Tyranny of the Text.” She begins part 3 of the series by asking: “Is the Bible fact or fiction?”

Hirst wrote:

This is one of the most common questions I get asked as an archaeologist and it is one for which I have yet to find a good answer. And yet the question is at the absolute heart of archaeology, central to the growth and development of archaeology, and it is the one that gets more archaeologists into trouble than any other. And, more to the point, it brings us back to the history of archaeology.

Read Hirst’s “The History of Archaeology,” Part 3 by clicking here.

Read the whole series by clicking here.

Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

Tag: Archaeology