Product Overview
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) by taking an in-depth look at the names and faces making headlines when it all began. Get to know the scholars through their own words, illuminated with gorgeous images of the sites and finds that made them famous. Join them as they narrate the thrilling discoveries made within the past 40 years. Wrestle alongside them over scripture, critical scholarship and faith. Listen to these scholars discus their different approaches to reading the Bible. Flee the Nazis with a Dead Sea Scrolls doyen. Meet the Philistines through the words of two experts. Explore the limitations of archaeology with Masada s longtime director, and debate the use of the Bible in archaeology with an excavator who has dug at Gezer. These lavishly illustrative interviews present a meeting of the minds between editor Hershel Shanks and the cream of the archaeological crop.
