Introduction John Stevenson 2011 Maps by David P

Introduction © John Stevenson, 2011 Maps by David P. Barrett, used by permission

Dr. John T. Stevenson • Family Life • Academic Life

Dr. John T. Stevenson • Family Life • Academic Life • Professional Life

Dr. John T. Stevenson • • • Family Life Academic Life Professional Life Ministry Life Spiritual Life

Dr. John T. Stevenson • • • Family Life Academic Life Professional Life Spiritual Life Ministry Life Archaeology and Ancient History

Dr. John T. Stevenson http: //John. Stevenson. net John. Stevenson@Bellsouth. net

Group Introductions • Your name • Your home church • Where are you in the SFBC process? • What is your current ministry within the Kingdom?

Textbook The Archaeology of the Bible. James K. Hoffmeier. Lion Publisher, UK: 2008

Textbook The Historical Books of the Old Testament: One God, One People, One Land John Stevenson. Redeemer: 2010

Hatti Mesopotamia Egypt

Hatti Land Bridge Mesopotamia DESERT Egypt

Hittites Assyria Israel Egypt Babylon

Hittites Assyria Phoenicia Israel Egypt Aram Babylon

• The Coastal Plain • Central Mountain Range • Jordan Rift Valley

• The Coastal Plain • Central Mountain Range • Jordan Rift Valley

• The Coastal Plain • Central Mountain Range • Jordan Rift Valley

• The Coastal Plain • Central Mountain Range • Jordan Rift Valley • Trans Jordan

• The Valley of Jezreel

• The Valley of Jezreel • The Yarmuk River Gilead

• The Valley of Jezreel • The Yarmuk River • The Jabbok River Gilead

• The Valley of Jezreel • The Yarmuk River • The Jabbok River • The Arnon River Gilead Moab

• The King’s Highway • The Way of the Sea (the Way of the Philistines) Megiddo Jericho

Climate of Canaan • Mediterranean Climate • Dependent upon winter rains – Early Rains: October – Later Rains: April

Genesis 1 - 11 Creation Fall Flood Tower of Babel

1500 - 1000 Period of the Exodus Judges and Patriarchs 1000 - 500 Kings of Israel and Judah Sinai Torah Return 2000 - 1500 Historical Books Poetic Books Prophetic Books

1500 - 1000 Period of the Exodus Judges and Patriarchs 1000 - 500 Kings of Israel and Judah Sinai Torah Historical Books Return 2000 - 1500

Egypt 1798

Rosetta

Three types of Writing • • • Hieroglyphs Demotic Greek

Jean Francois Champollion

Persia 1842

• Old Persian • Elamite • Akkadian

“Mesha Stele” Jordan 1868

“Mesha Stele” Jordan 1868

Israel 1908 Gezer

Heinrich Schliemann 1822 - 1890

Ugarit

• Discovered in 1928 • Ruins date from around 1450 to 1200 B. C. Ras Shamrah (Ugarit)

• Excavations began in 1964 • 20, 000 tablets discovered • 1 st city from 30002240 B. C. • 2 nd city from 18501600 B. C. Ebla Ras Shamrah (Ugarit)

Upper Galilee 1994

Dan

Bth Dwd “House of David”

Egypt 1887

Giza Amarna • Discovered in 1887 • 382 Cuneiform tablets

Palestine 1947

Qumran

• • Isaiah Scroll Second copy of Isaiah Community Rule Pesher on Habakkuk War Scroll Thanksgiving Hymns Genesis Apocryphon

ISAIAH SCROLL

Jerusalem Bethlehem Qumran

Jerusalem Bethlehem Qumran

Jerusalem Bethlehem Qumran

Hebrew University of Jerusalem • Incomplete manuscript of Isaiah reflecting old Hebrew • Thanksgiving Hymns • War Scroll

Metropolitan of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem • Isaiah Scroll reflecting editorial changes • Community Rule • Pesher Habakkuk • Genesis Apocryphon

• Moved to the United States • Put the scrolls up for sale in a newspaper advertisement

• Son of Eleazar Sukenik • General in Israeli army • Purchased through an intermediary the four scrolls for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Languages Represented – Mostly Hebrew text – Few Aramaic – Even fewer Greek

• Languages Represented • Writing Materials – Mostly Parchment – Few Papyri – One Copper Scroll

• Languages Represented • Writing Materials • Subject Matter – Biblical texts (Old Testament) – Jewish books – Books used in a unique Jewish sect

The Forming of Ancient Tels

Unexcavated Tel at Colossae

Methods of Excavations • Complete Excavation • Pit Method • Trench Method • Grid Method

Types of Writing • Monumental • Professional • Occasional

Monumental

Professional Berach, son of Beriah

Occasional

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