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Theory within the archaeology of religion borrows heavily from the Anthropology of religion, which encompasses a broad range of perspectives.These include: Émile Durkheim's functionalist understanding of religion as serving to separate the sacred and the profane; [8] Karl Marx's idea of religion as "the opium of the masses" or a false consciousness, [9] Clifford Geertz's loose definition of ...
Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118610527. Rainey, Anson F. (November 1994). "The 'House of David' and the House of the Deconstructionists". Biblical Archaeology Review. 20 Issue=6: 47. Willems, Harco (2010). "The First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom". In Lloyd, Alan B. (ed.). A Companion to Ancient ...
Commenting in The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion, Tõnno Jonuks wrote "Despite stressing the importance of archaeology and using its sources to a greater extent than any other school in the Baltic countries, studies of archaeomythology are still based upon folklore and archaeology has only been used selectively. The ...
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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Biblical archaeology is an academic school and a subset of Biblical studies and ... religious document or ...
The Lives of Ordinary People in Ancient Israel: Where Archaeology and the Bible Intersect 2005 book by William G. Dever Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel (Eerdmans, ISBN 0-8028-2852-3 , 2005) [ 1 ] is a book by Syro-Palestinian archaeologist William G. Dever , Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archeology and Anthropology at the ...
From 1990 to 1992, Magness was Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Syro-Palestinian Archaeology at the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art at Brown University.She also taught at Tufts University before joining the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism.
"I was obliged to draw on a number of fields: epigraphy, iconology, historical astronomy, ethnography, landscape archaeology. I combined these with text-based Indology and religious studies. This approach – eclectic but not, I hope, eccentric – led me to breach disciplinary protocols and to create what I have termed the "archaeology of ritual."