Musa
Musa (family Musaceae) A genus of giant, rhizomatous (see
RHIZOME)
herbs which have an erect
pseudostem, formed from overlapping leaf bases, and terminal
inflorescences. The flowers are unisexual, the males terminal and subtended by coloured
bracts. The fruit is an elongate
berry with many stony seeds (absent in the edible bananas). Musas are bat-pollinated. Cultivated bananas are hybrids, and
triploid or tetraploid (see
POLYPLOIDY). There are 35 species, occurring in the palaeotropics.
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The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Shofar; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
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Shifting Sands: The Rise and Fall of Biblical Archaeology
Magazine article from: Near Eastern Archaeology; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Sands: The Rise and Fall of Biblical Archaeology By Thomas W. Oavis. Oxford...be a concise history of "biblical archaeology"-from its very beginnings...development of the field of biblical archaeology, discussing various luminaries...
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Between Text and Artifact: Integrating Archaeology in Biblical Studies Teaching
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...and Artifact: Integrating Archaeology in Biblical Studies Teaching (SBL Archaeology...Critical Survey of Handbooks on Biblical Archaeology" (pp. 67-98); Scott...whole controversy about "biblical archaeology." She traces the development...
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The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions; The Proceedings of a Symposium, August 12-14, 2001, at Trinity International University
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...eds.), The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies...Paper $26. The Future of Biblical Archaeology publishes the proceedings...The first part, entitled "Biblical Archaeology: The Recent Debate and Future...
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The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Millard, eds. The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies...As a field of endeavor, "biblical archaeology" has unquestionably been...archaeology or departments of biblical archaeology have been discontinued...
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AN Introduction to Biblical Archaeology.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...he acknowledges that "'biblical archaeology' has become the archaeology...period. A postscript treats "Biblical Archaeology and Biblical Studies...intended. An Introduction to Biblical Archaeology would, in fact, be an ideal...
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Analysis: Biblical archaeology
Transcript from: Talk of the Nation (NPR); 3/19/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...00-00-0000 Analysis: Biblical archaeology Host: NEAL CONAN Time...We'll be talking about biblical archaeology. Archaeologists now cast...you look at the history of biblical archaeology, early on biblical scholars...
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The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel
Magazine article from: The Middle East Journal; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel...between Palestinian and biblical history. Clearly...Palestine retrievable from archaeology has no place for the...Nevertheless, to downgrade biblical history into the annals...
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What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It? What Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel
Magazine article from: Interpretation; 7/1/2002; ; 654 words
; ...a primer in Palestinian archaeology. Dever takes on the revisionist school of biblical interpretation, which regards...in conversation with the biblical text. In contrast to a discredited "biblical archaeology," which sought to use...
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What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It? What Archaeology Can Tell Us About the Reality of Ancient Israel.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Interpretation; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...a primer in Palestinian archaeology. Dever takes on the revisionist school of biblical interpretation, which regards...in conversation with the biblical text. In contrast to a discredited "biblical archaeology," which sought to use...
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biblical archaeology
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
biblical archaeology term applied to the archaeology...cultural setting of its time. Biblical archaeology developed in earnest in the early...cent. BC After two centuries of biblical archaeology, it is possible to read the Bible...
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Archaeology in the Middle East
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...Palmyra. The field of biblical archaeology was inaugurated by...formative period in biblical archaeology. Intense interest...underpinnings of modern archaeology, namely that human existence predated the biblical Flood, the theory...
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archaeology
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Rawlinson from the Behistun rock in Iran. Archaeology in Mesopotamia was notably advanced in the...beginning in 1947, aroused new interest in biblical studies (see biblical archaeology ). Interest in complex New World cultures...
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criticism, biblical
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
criticism, biblical The examination of the books...historical investigation, archaeology, palaeography, and linguistics. Biblical criticism starts from a conviction...readerships by human authors. A biblical critic is a scholar equipped...
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Archaeology
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...languages. Classical archaeology. Classical archaeologists...The roots of classical archaeology can be traced to the European fascination with Biblical studies and ancient...twentieth century, most archaeology consisted of randomly...
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