It should be a remarkable weekend: on October 21-23 two of the most respected Archaeologists in the field will be presenting at the 2005 Colloquium of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism in a program titled:
Digging for the Truth: Archaeology and the Bible
The Colloquium is being held in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills. Topics addressed incude:- Patriarchs, exodus, and conquest: fact or fiction?
- When did the Jewish people begin?
- What is the truth about King Solomon's Temple?
- What is the history behind the Torah?
- Implications for Jews and Christians.
- Unless you are somewhat familiar with the field and the issues which have been raised over the past decade, it's hard to appreciate the value of having these two scholars on the same podium presenting to, and available to, the interested layman. Israel Finkelstein and Amihai Mazar are preeminent scholars who reflect the best that science has to offer in the area of Biblical history and Israelite ethnogenesis. I'm looking forward to it, and I hope that some of you you can make it as well.
More information can be found here.
- Unless you are somewhat familiar with the field and the issues which have been raised over the past decade, it's hard to appreciate the value of having these two scholars on the same podium presenting to, and available to, the interested layman. Israel Finkelstein and Amihai Mazar are preeminent scholars who reflect the best that science has to offer in the area of Biblical history and Israelite ethnogenesis. I'm looking forward to it, and I hope that some of you you can make it as well.
