1. THE BIBLE AND ARCHAEOLOGY Session 1 Welcome 2. DOES THE ARCHAEOLOGIST LOOK LIKE IS THIS? 3. CAN YOU SAY? 4. IS THE ARCHAEOLOGIST YOU SEE LIKE THIS? 5. WHAT FIRST INTERESTED…

1. THE BIBLE AND ARCHAEOLOGY Session 2 Welcome 2. REVIEW LAST WEEK What did he say? 3. WHAT IS ARCHAEOLOGY? • The word archaeology is strictly speaking “the study of…

I. Cross-cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads A. Silk Road Origins: 1. Silk Roads: overland route that linked China to Mediterranean Roman world via Mesopotamia, Iran, &…

1 The Domestication of the Camel in the Ancient Near East (Domestic camels on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, British Museum) Introduction The single humped camel,…

1. THE BIBLE AND ARCHAEOLOGY Session 3 Welcome 2. REVIEW LAST WEEK What did he say? 3. HISTORICAL PROBLEMS 4. ONE HISTORICAL PROBLEM • Higher critics say that the earliest…