William Foxwell Albright (1891–1971)
Autore di Matthew: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (The Anchor Bible, Vol. 26)
Sull'Autore
Born in Coquimbo, Chile, William F. Albright, a preeminent orientalist, was the son of American missionary parents. By 1903 the family returned to the United States, where they would spend their next years in several small-town parsonages in the Midwest. At 16, as a student at the Senior Academy mostra altro preparatory department of Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa, the precocious Albright taught himself Hebrew, using his father's inductive grammar. After receiving his A.B. from Upper Iowa in 1912 and serving one year as a high school principal, Albright embarked on a graduate program in Semitic Studies at Johns Hopkins University. At Johns Hopkins, Albright came under the influence of the well-established German-trained orientalist, Paul Haupt. From him Albright learned to appreciate the role that Babylonian texts might play in solving biblical cruxes. Even so, he eventually came to distance himself from Haupt's radical biblical scholarship. Receiving his Ph.D. in 1916, Albright remained at Johns Hopkins until called into military service. His lengthy tenure in Palestine began in 1919, when he was invited to engage in postdoctoral research at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem. From 1920 to 1929, and again from 1933 to 1936, he functioned as director of the school. Recognized for his remarkable linguistic talent and passion for ancient texts, Albright was designated W. W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages at Johns Hopkins in 1929. His command of Assyriology, Egyptology, Northwest Semitic philology, and ancient Near Eastern history was phenomenal. For an entire generation, Albright's contributions to American biblical scholarship and Syro-Palestinian archaeology were legion. His academic breadth led to his elections as president of the American Oriental Society (1935) and the Society of Biblical Literature (1939). During his residency in Palestine, Albright became acquainted with its history, pottery, and customs, both ancient and modern. He experienced Palestine as the land of the Bible. Between 1926 and 1932, he directed four seasons of excavation at Tell Beit Mirsim in southern Judah. So fully did Albright master its pottery and stratigraphy that his ceramic chronology for the Bronze and Iron Ages (c.3500-600 B.C.) remains in use even today. Largely under Albright's tutelage, the first Jewish archaeologists in Palestine became active in the field. Thus, Albright helped to lay the foundations of the later "Israeli School" of archaeology. Albright was no fundamentalist, but he often reacted against the excesses of an earlier European-style literary criticism that discredited the Bible as a viable source of history. This gifted historian of religion was capable of perceiving sweeping vistas. His well-known volumes, The Archaeology of Palestine and From the Stone Age to Christianity, are two among many that effectively interpret the Bible in relation to its multifaceted environment. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di William Foxwell Albright
Matthew: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (The Anchor Bible, Vol. 26) (1971) — Traduttore — 454 copie
Anchor Bible 81 copie
The evidence of language 6 copie
Amarna Letters from Palestine, Syria, the Philistines and Phoenicia (Cambridge Ancient History) (1966) 4 copie
The Vocalization of the Egyptian Syllabic Orthography (American Oriental Series, Volume 5) (1934) 3 copie
The Anchor Bible: Mark 1-8 2 copie
The Excavation of Tell Beit Mirsim in Palestine, Vol. 1: The Pottery of the First Three Campaigns (The Annual of the… (1932) 2 copie
Die Bibel im Licht der Altertumsforschung ein Bericht über die Arbeit eines Jahrhunderts (1957) 2 copie
The Old Testament World 1 copia
The Antiquity of Mosaic Law 1 copia
The Anchor Bible - Volume 26 1 copia
King Joiachin in Exile 1 copia
Scrolls and Christianity 1 copia
The Anchor Bible: I Corinthians 1 copia
The anchor Bible: Jeremiah 1 copia
The anchor Bible: Jeremiah 21.36 1 copia
The Anchor Bible: 2 Chronicles 1 copia
The anchor Bible: Psalms 1-50 1 copia
"What Were the Cherubim?" 1 copia
Opere correlate
Translating & Understanding the Old Testament: Essays in Honor of Herbert Gordon May (1970) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Albright, W. F.
- Data di nascita
- 1891-05-24
- Data di morte
- 1971-09-19
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
Chile - Luogo di nascita
- Coquimbo, Chile
- Luogo di morte
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Coquimbo, Chile
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Jerusalem, Israel - Istruzione
- Upper Iowa University (BA|1912)
Johns Hopkins University (PhD|1916) - Attività lavorative
- archaeologist
biblical scholar
Professor of Semitic languages - Relazioni
- Baumgarten, Joseph M. (student)
- Organizzazioni
- W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR ∙ former ASOR)
International Congress of Orientalists
Archaeological Institute of America
Society of Biblical Literature
International Organization of Old Testament Scholars
Catholic Biblical Association
Utenti
Recensioni
De la edad de piedra al cristianismo : el marco… di William Foxwell Albright
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This is a short historical survey by an preeminent scholar. It helped me in my early studies of the Bible.
If you want to understand the history of the study of the Ancient Near East, Israel and the Bible during the first sixty years of the twentieth century, this is an essential book, written by one who lived through it all, an eyewitness. For all specialists in Old Testament studies, this is required reading.
Edition: Revised Edition of Volumes I and II // Descr: 58 p. 23.5 cm. // Series: The Cambridge Ancient History Call No. { } Contains Bibliography and Chronological Table. // //
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