BIBLE & ARCHAEOLOGY 
RS121


Instructor:                    John R. Abercrombie
Office:                        Williams Hall 440
Office Hours:                  Tues  4:00-6:00  pm
Phone      :                   898-4917
E-MAIL:                        jacka@ccat.sas.upenn.edu


REQUIREMENTS:

Students will submit three short papers on selected artifacts from
the University Museum's display collections.  Papers will be no
more that five pages in length and will be well-research on the
archaeological and historical significance of each piece. 

Class attendance is required.


COURSE OUTLINE:

1. History of Archaeology in the Levant

2. Middle Bronze Age

Bible., Gen 12-48

Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts.
           "The Story of Si-nuhe"
            
           "Asiatics in Egyptian Household Service"
           "The Hyksos in Egypt"
           "The Wars against the Hyksos"

Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Pictures, Nos. 3(Asiatics),
147-148(pottery), 593(Execration text), 712-714 (fortifications &
temple?), 778(Burial), 868(Shechem)

Cambridge Ancient History (Revised Edition).,
           G. Posener, "Syria and Palestine c. 2160-1780 B.C."

3. Late Bronze Age

Bible, Exodus 1-15, Joshua 1-12, Judges 1

Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts.
           "The Explusion of the Hyksos"
           "The Asiatic Campaigns of Thut-mose III"
           "Lists of Asiatic Countries under the Egyptian Empire"
           "The Asiatic Campaigning of Amen-hotep II"
           "The Amarna Letters"           
           "Texts from the Tomb of General Hor-em-hab"
           "Campaigns of Seti I in Asia"
           "The Asiatic Campaigning of Ramses II"
           "The Hymn of Victory of Mer-ne-Ptah"

Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Pictures, Nos. 4-9(Asiatics),
45-56(Asiatics), 147-148(pottery), 156-157(wine making), 215(game
board), 313-315(campaigns), 320-331(stelae), 333- 340(campaigns),
469(figurines), 735(temple?), 877(water system), 774(toggle pins),
784(wine set), 785(sword), 825(deity), 831(deity), 836(deity), 840
(tripod), 843 (clay mask)

Cambridge Ancient History (Revised Edition).,
           T.G.H. James, "Egypt: From the Explusion of the Hyksos to
           Amenophis I."
           Kathleen Kenyon, "Palestine in the time of the 18th Dynasty."
           H.J. Franken, "Palestine in the time of the 19th Dynasty: 
           Archaeological Evidence."


4. Iron I

Bible., Judges 2-21, I Samuel

Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts.
           "The War against the Peoples of the Sea"
           "The Journey of Wen-Amon to Phoenicia"

Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Pictures, 344-348(asiatics), Nos.
57(Sea People), 59(Sea People), 341(Sea People),813(Sea People),
641(anthropoid coffin), 125-128(ivory), 147-148(pottery),
469(figurines), 830(deity), 879(water system)

Cambridge Ancient History (Revised Edition).,
           W.F. Albright, " Syria, The Philistines and Phoenicia."

5. Iron II

Bible., II Samuel, I & II Kings

Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts.
           "The Campaign of Sheshonk I"
           "The Moabite Stone"
           "Shalmaneser III: The Fight against the Aramean Coalition"
           "Adad-nirari III: Expedition to Palestine"
           "Tiglath-pileser III: Campaigns against Syria and Palestine"
           "Sargon II: The Fall of Samaria"
           "The Siloam Inscription"
           "Sennacherib"
           "Esarhaddon"
           "Ashurbanipal"
           "Nebuchadnezzar II"
           "The Lachish Ostraca"
           "The Conquest of Jerusalem"

Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Pictures, Nos. 63(arabs),
129-132(ivory inlays), 147-148(pottery), 175(helmet), 274(stela),
279(ostraca), 349(campaign), 351-355(stela), 371-373(campaign),
716- 721(fortifications & buildings), 741-742(stables?), 744(water
system), 800(proto-Aeolian capital), 809(royal stamp seals),
851-55(anthropoid coffins, Dhiban & Amman), 862(Area A, Hazor),
874(pillared house)

Cambridge Ancient History (Revised Edition).,
           W.F. Albright, " Syria, The Philistines and Phoenicia."