Na Review of Biblical Literature, Diana Edelman, da Universidade de Sheffield, Reino Unido, e Thomas L. Thompson, da Universidade de Copenhague, Dinamarca, estão resenhando o livro editado por
James K. HOFFMEIER e Alan MILLARD (ed.) The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004, xviii + 403 p.
Diz a editora:
Biblical archaeology has long been a discipline in crisis. Biblical minimalists, who believe that the Bible contains little of actual historical fact, today are challenging those who accept the historicity of Scripture. In this volume Jewish and evangelical Christian archaeologists, historians, and biblical scholars confront the minimalist critique and offer positive alternatives. Bringing a needed scientific approach to biblical archaeology, the contributors construct a new paradigm that reads the Bible critically but sympathetically. Their work covers the full range of subjects relevant to understanding the context of the Bible, including proper approaches to scriptural interpretation, recent archaeological evidence, and new studies of Near Eastern texts and inscriptions.
Este volume contém as palestras de um simpósio realizado na Trinity International University, de 12 a 14 de agosto de 2001. São 19 “papers” organizados em 4 partes.
O objetivo do simpósio foi debater a crise da “arqueologia bíblica”. São duas resenhas que merecem leitura.
Observe que a resenha de Diana Edelman é de 16.04.2005, enquanto que a de Thomas L. Thompson foi publicada em 22.04.2006.
Teria sido interessante também a participação do William Dever nesta resenha: teríamos aí realmente uma abrangencia ampla.