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  James B. Pritchard -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He had a long association with the (A university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) University of Pennsylvania, where he was professor of religious thought and the first curator of biblical archaeology at the University Museum.
Pritchard's strength lay in setting the Bible within its broader cultural contexts in the Ancient Near East.
He wrote and edited with clarity, and his popular works are not dumbed-down: Archaeology and the Old Testament (1958) traced the evolution of modern approaches to archaeology from the first excavations in the Holy Land; Solomon and Sheba (1974) separated fact from legend.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/james_b._pritchard.htm   (387 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: James B. Pritchard
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The American archaeologist James Bennett Pritchard (October 4, 1909 – January 1, 1997) explicated the interrelationships of the religions of ancient Israel, Canaan, Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon.
He had a long association with the University of Pennsylvania, where he was professor of religious thought and the first curator of biblical archaeology at the University Museum.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/James-B.-Pritchard   (435 words)

  
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Pritchard, James B.; "The Ancient Near East", 1958.
Graham, James Walter; "The Palaces of Crete", 1962.
Breasted, James Henry; "The Conquest of Civilization", 1926.
www.ancientroute.com /Credit/NumBibl.htm   (927 words)

  
 Apologetics Press - Archaeology and the Old Testament
Another important feature of the Moabite stone is the fact that it “gave the solution to a question that had gone unanswered for centuries.” The biblical record chronicles the Moabite subjugation under King David and King Solomon, and how the Moabites broke free at the beginning of the divided kingdom.
From the end of the quoted portion of the Mesha Inscription (“while Israel hath perished forever”), it is obvious that Mesha exaggerated the efficacy of his conquest—a common practice among ancient kings.
Pritchard noted that historians agree that “the Moabite chroniclers tended generally, and quite understandably, to ignore their own losses and setbacks” (1958b, p.
www.apologeticspress.org /articles/2502   (5621 words)

  
 Ancient Law - Professor Bernard Hibbitts
Theodore J. Meek, trans., "The Code of Hammurabi", in Ancient Near Eastern Texts (J. Pritchard, ed., 1955)
"Tomb of Rekmire", in James H. Breasted, 2 Ancient Records of Egypt (1935)
Albert Goetze, trans., "The Hittite Laws", in Ancient Near Eastern Texts (James B. Pritchard, ed., 1950)
www.law.pitt.edu /hibbitts/ancientl.htm   (805 words)

  
 Exposing The Old Testament
Cambridge illustrated History of Religions, edited by John Bowker.
The Ancient Near East, Volume I, edited by James B. Pritchard © 1958
Old Testament Parallels: Laws and Stories From the Ancient Near East by Victor H. Matthews and Don C. Benjamin© 1991
www.exposingchristianity.com /Old%20Testament.html   (2347 words)

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