AU  - Albright, William Foxwell
TI  - Archaeology and the religion of Israel
AV  - BS1180 A431 1942
PY  - 1942///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - The Johns Hopkins press
KW  - Judaism
KW  - History
KW  - To 70 A.D
KW  - Bible
KW  - Evidences, authority, etc.
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Religion
N1  - The Ayer Lectures of the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School 1941; Bibliographical references included in "Notes"  and indexes; Chapter I. Archaeology and the Ancient Near-eastern mind -- 1. Archaeology, history, and religion --  2. Archaeology and Man's Aesthetic and Imaginative Faculties --  3. Archaeology and the Affective Faculties of Man --  4. Archaeology and the Reasoning Faculties of Man --  Chapter II. The Archaelogical Background of Old Testament Religion -- 1. The Archaeological Sources for the Religion of the Ancient Near East --  2. On the Use of Archaeological Data for the History of Ancient Near-Eastern Religion --  Chapter III. Archaeology and the Religion of the Canaanites -- 1. The Sources and Scope of our Knowledge --  2. The Canaanite Pantheon --  3. Canaanite Mythology --  4. Some Aspects of Canaanite Religious Practice --  Chapter IV. Archaeology and the Religion of Early Israel -- 1. Israel and its Religion after the Conquest --  2. The Conflict between Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan -- 3. David and the Religion of Israel in the Early Tenth Century --  Chapter V. Archaeology and the Religion of later Israel -- 1. The Economic and Political Background of the Age of Solomon --  2. The Place of the Temple of Solomon in the History of Israelite Religion -- 3. Archaeology and the Religion of the Dual Monarchy
N2  - This classic statement of twentieth-century biblical archaeology relates the findings of archaeology to the history of Israel as conveyed in the Old Testament
ER  -