[asa] The Science of Biblical Archeology?

In this month's Biblical Archeology Review, Ronald Hendel of UC Berkeley
argues that there is no longer any such thing as "Biblical Archeology." He
states that

The only children of this divorce [between Biblical studies and archeology]
who are still doing Biblical Archeology in the Albrightian style are
fundamentalist and evangelical Biblical scholars. But these scholars often
eschew critical methods of Biblical scholarship and historiography, and so
relegate themselves to the margins of scholarship. They are like the
advocates of creationism or 'intelligent design' in the field of biology --
they adopt critical methods when the results do not conflict with their
theology.

Curious for reactions -- in particular from any archeologists from any of
the evangelical colleges on the list. Is the comparison between
evangelicals who seek to harmonize archeology and the Bible and
creationism/ID a fair one?

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Received on Tue Jul 11 13:43:06 2006