Sacred Geography: A Tale of Murder and Archaeology in the Holy Land.(Book Review)

From: The Christian Century | Date: September 25, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

By Edward Fox. Holt, 320 pp., $25.00.

ARCHAEOLOGY IN the Holy Land--until recently often called "biblical archaeology"--has been involved in the region's political struggles since the late 19th century. In the formative phases of exploration and discovery, the colonialist European powers and, later, America, in their quest to "prove the Bible," engaged in a form of cultural imperialism. Both used archaeology not only to impose the values of the Christian West upon the indigenous peoples of the region but also to dispossess them of their own past.

More recently, both ...

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