Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology
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The Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology are a series of lectures delivered and published under the auspices of the British Academy
. The Leopold Schweich Trust Fund, set up in 1907, was a gift from Miss Constance Schweich in memory of her father. It provided for three public lectures to be delivered annually (now triennially) on subjects related to ‘the archaeology, art, history, languages and literature of Ancient Civilization with reference to Biblical Study’. The three papers given by each lecturer are published together in book form, by Oxford University Press
. There have been many reprintings.
British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...
. The Leopold Schweich Trust Fund, set up in 1907, was a gift from Miss Constance Schweich in memory of her father. It provided for three public lectures to be delivered annually (now triennially) on subjects related to ‘the archaeology, art, history, languages and literature of Ancient Civilization with reference to Biblical Study’. The three papers given by each lecturer are published together in book form, by Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
. There have been many reprintings.
Catalogue of titles
Book details are preceded by the year of delivery of the lectures. The date of publication is usually a year or two later.- 1908. Modern Research as illustrating the Bible. by S R DriverSamuel Rolles DriverSamuel Rolles Driver was an English divine and Hebrew scholar. He devoted his life to the study, both textual and critical, of the Old Testament. He was the father of Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver, also a distinguished Bible scholar.-Biography:Samuel Rolles Driver was born at Southampton...
- 1909. The Composition of the Book of Isaiah in the Light of History and Archaeology. by Robert H Kennett
- 1910. The Early Poetry of Israel in its Physical and Social Origins. by George Adam SmithGeorge Adam SmithGeorge Adam Smith , Scottish theologian, was born in Calcutta, where his father, George Smith, C.I.E., was then Principal of the Doveton College, a boys' school....
- 1911. The Philistines: Their History and Civilization. by R A Stewart Macalister
- 1912. The Relations between the Laws of Babylonia and the Laws of the Hebrew Peoples. by C H W Johns
- 1913. Jewish and Christian Apocalypses. by F Crawford BurkittFrancis Crawford BurkittFrancis Crawford Burkitt was a British theologian and scholar. He was Norris Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, from 1905 until shortly before his death. Burkitt was a sturdy critic of the notion of a distinct "Caesarean Text" of the New Testament put forward by B. H...
- 1914. Une Communauté Judéo-Araméenne à Éléphantine, en Égypte, aux VIe et Ve Siècles av. J.-C. by A van Hoonacker
- 1915. The Text of the Old Testament. by Édouard NavilleÉdouard NavilleCaptaine Henri Édouard Naville was a Swiss egyptologist.He was born in Geneva. He studied in London, Paris and Berlin ....
- 1916. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew Tradition. by Leonard W KingLeonard William KingLeonard William King , M.A., F.S.A., was an English archaeologist and Assyriologist educated at Rugby School and King's College in Cambridge. He collected stone inscriptions widely in the Near East, taught Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology at King's College for a number of years, and published a...
- 1917. Israel’s Settlement in Canaan: The Biblical Tradition and its Historical Background. by C F BurneyCharles Fox BurneyRev. Charles Fox Burney was Biblical scholar at Oxford University, England.-Early life:Charles was the son of Charles Burney, Paymaster Chief Royal Navy, and his wife Eleanor Norton, daughter of the Rev. W. A. Norton, rector of Alderton and Eye, Suffolk. He was educated at Merchant Taylors'...
- 1918. The HittitesHittitesThe Hittites were a Bronze Age people of Anatolia.They established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia c. the 18th century BC. The Hittite empire reached its height c...
. by A E Cowley - 1919. Lectures on the Apocalypse. by R H CharlesRobert Henry CharlesRobert Henry Charles was an English biblical scholar and theologian. He is known particularly for English translations of apocryphal and pseudepigraphal works, and editions including Jubilees , the Book of Enoch , and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs which have been widely used.He was...
- 1920. The Septuagint and Jewish Worship: A Study in Origins. by H St John Thackeray
- 1921. The Relations between Arabs and Israelites prior to the Rise of Islam. by D S MargoliouthDavid Samuel MargoliouthDavid Samuel Margoliouth was an orientalist. He was briefly active as a priest in the Church of England...
- 1922. Campaigns in Palestine from Alexander the Great. by Israel AbrahamsIsrael AbrahamsIsrael Abrahams was one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation. He wrote a number of classics on Judaism, most notably, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages ....
- 1923. The Samaritans: Their History, Doctrines and Literature. by Moses GasterMoses GasterMoses Gaster was a Romanian-born Jewish-British scholar, the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, London, and a Hebrew linguist. He was also the son-in-law of Michael Friedländer, principal of Jews' College. The surname Gaster is taken from Spanish Castro, indicating his Sephardic...
- 1924. Kings of the HittitesHittitesThe Hittites were a Bronze Age people of Anatolia.They established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia c. the 18th century BC. The Hittite empire reached its height c...
. by David George HogarthDavid George HogarthDavid George Hogarth was a British archaeologist and scholar associated with T. E. Lawrence and Arthur Evans.-Archaeological career:... - 1925. The Religion of Ancient Palestine in the Light of Archaeology. by Stanley A Cook
- 1926. Palestine in General History. by Theodore H Robinson, J W Hunkin & F C BurkittFrancis Crawford BurkittFrancis Crawford Burkitt was a British theologian and scholar. He was Norris Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, from 1905 until shortly before his death. Burkitt was a sturdy critic of the notion of a distinct "Caesarean Text" of the New Testament put forward by B. H...
- 1927. The Apocalypse in Art. by Montague Rhodes JamesM. R. JamesMontague Rhodes James, OM, MA, , who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge and of Eton College . He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre...
- 1928. The Old and New Testaments in Muslim Religious Art. by Thomas W ArnoldThomas Walker ArnoldSir Thomas Walker Arnold was an eminent British orientalist and historian of Islamic art who taught at MAO College, Aligarh Muslim University, then Aligarh College, and Government College University, Lahore. He was a friend of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, and wrote his famous book "The preaching of Islam"...
- 1929. A Comparative Study of the Literatures of Egypt, Palestine, and Mesopotamia: Egypt’s Contribution to the Literature of the Ancient World. by T Eric PeetThomas Eric PeetThomas Eric Peet was an English Egyptologist.-Biography:Peet's parents were Thomas and Salome Peet. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby and at Queen's College, Oxford. From 1909 onwards he conducted excavations in Egypt for the Egypt Exploration Fund...
- 1930. Ancient Synagogues in Palestine and Greece. by E L Sukenik
- 1931. Ancient Hebrew Social Life and Custom as Indicated in Law, Narrative and Metaphor. by R H Kennett
- 1932. Recent Developments in the Textual Criticism of the Greek Bible. by Frederic G KenyonFrederic G. KenyonSir Frederic George Kenyon GBE KCB TD FBA FSA was a British paleographer and biblical and classical scholar. He occupied from 1889 to 1931 a series of posts at the British Museum...
- 1933. Babylonian Menologies and the Semitic Calendars. by S Langdon
- 1934. Archaeological History of Iran. by Ernst E HerzfeldErnst HerzfeldErnst Emil Herzfeld was a German archaeologist and Iranologist.-Life:Herzfeld was born in Celle, Province of Hanover...
- 1935. The Origins of Early Semitic Ritual. by S H HookeS. H. HookeSamuel Henry Hooke was an English scholar writing on comparative religion. He is known for his translation of the Bible into Basic English.He was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. He was educated at St...
- 1936. The Cuneiform Texts of Ras Shamra-Ugarit. by Claude F A Schaeffer
- 1937. Early Churches in Palestine. by J W Crowfoot
- 1938. The Work of the Chronicler: Its Purpose and its Date. by Adam C Welch
- 1939. The Hebrew Bible in Art. by Jacob Leveen
- 1940. Isaiah Chapters XL–LV: Literary Criticism and History. by Sidney Smith
- 1941. The Cairo GenizaCairo GenizaThe Cairo Geniza is a collection of almost 280,000 Jewish manuscript fragments found in the Genizah or storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat, presently Old Cairo, Egypt. Some additional fragments were found in the Basatin cemetery east of Old Cairo, and the collection includes a number of...
. by Paul E KahlePaul E. KahlePaul Ernst Kahle was a German orientalist and scholar.He was born in East Prussia and studied orientalism and theology in Marburg. He attained his doctorate in 1898. He was a Lutheran pastor. He studied semitic philology in Cairo between 1908 and 1918... - 1942. Some Hellenistic Elements in Primitive Christianity. by Wilfred L Knox
- 1943. The Poem of JobBook of JobThe Book of Job , commonly referred to simply as Job, is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. It relates the story of Job, his trials at the hands of Satan, his discussions with friends on the origins and nature of his suffering, his challenge to God, and finally a response from God. The book is a...
: A Literary Study with a New Translation. by William Barron Stevenson - 1944. Semitic Writing, from Pictograph to Alphabet. by G R DriverGodfrey Rolles DriverGodfrey Rolles Driver CBE, FBA was an English Orientalist noted for his studies of Semitic languages and Assyriology....
- 1945. Ideas of Divine Rule in the Ancient East. by C J Gadd
- 1946. The Text of the Epistles: A Disquisition upon the Corpus Paulinum. by G Zuntz
- 1948. From Joseph to Joshua: Biblical Traditions in the Light of Archaeology. by H H Rowley
- 1959. L’Archéologie et les Manuscrits de la Mer Morte. by Roland de VauxRoland de VauxFather Roland Guérin de Vaux OP was a French Dominican priest who led the Catholic team that initially worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He was the director of the Ecole Biblique, a French Catholic Theological School in East Jerusalem, and he was charged with overseeing research on the scrolls...
- 1963. Amorites and Canaanites. by Kathleen M KenyonKathleen KenyonDame Kathleen Mary Kenyon , was a leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She is best known for her excavations in Jericho in 1952-1958.-Early life:...
- 1967. Ethiopia and the Bible. by Edward UllendorffEdward UllendorffEdward Ullendorff FBA was a British scholar and historian, especially in Semitic languages and Ethiopia.-Biography:...
- 1970. Hazor. by Yigael YadinYigael YadinYigael Yadin on 21 March 1917, died 28 June 1984) was an Israeli archeologist, politician, and the second Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.-Early life and military career:...
- 1972. The Church of the Holy SepulchreChurch of the Holy SepulchreThe Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also called the Church of the Resurrection by Eastern Christians, is a church within the walled Old City of Jerusalem. It is a few steps away from the Muristan....
in Jerusalem. by Charles Coüasnon - 1976. Some Aspects of HittiteHittitesThe Hittites were a Bronze Age people of Anatolia.They established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia c. the 18th century BC. The Hittite empire reached its height c...
Religion. by O.R. Gurney - 1977. Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early Christian Egypt. by Colin H Roberts
- 1983. Nebuchadrezzar and Babylon. by D. J. Wiseman
- 1984. MariMari, SyriaMari was an ancient Sumerian and Amorite city, located 11 kilometers north-west of the modern town of Abu Kamal on the western bank of Euphrates river, some 120 km southeast of Deir ez-Zor, Syria...
and the Early Israelite Experience. by Abraham Malamat - 1986. The Variable Spellings of the Hebrew Bible. by James BarrJames Barr (biblical scholar)James Barr FBA was a Scottish Old Testament scholar.Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Barr was ordained to the ministry of the Church of Scotland in 1951. He held professorships in New College, Edinburgh in the University of Edinburgh, Manchester, and at Vanderbilt University in the United States of...
- 1995. Translating the Bible: The Ethiopic Version of the Old Testament. by Michael A Knibb
- 1998. Symbol Systems of Ancient Palestine, in the light of Scarabs and Similar Seal-amulets. by Othmar Keel
- 2001. Idols of the People: Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East. by P R S Moorey
- 2004. AshkelonAshkelonAshkelon is a coastal city in the South District of Israel on the Mediterranean coast, south of Tel Aviv, and north of the border with the Gaza Strip. The ancient seaport of Ashkelon dates back to the Neolithic Age...
, Seaport of the Canaanites and the Philistines. by Lawrence StagerLawrence StagerLawrence E. "Larry" Stager is Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and is Director of the Harvard Semitic Museum... - 2007. Ugaritic and the Beginnings of the West-Semitic Literary Tradition by Dennis G Pardee