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Paperback Sacred Geography: A Tale of Murder and Archeology in the Holy Land Book

ISBN: 0805071881

ISBN13: 9780805071887

Sacred Geography: A Tale of Murder and Archeology in the Holy Land

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Book Overview

Biblical archeology has for centuries been subject to the manipulations of adventurers, generals, and statesmen, all seeking to further their own aims. Now more than ever, digging into the Holy Land is a weapon as two rival nations seek to prove their claims to ownership. The most puzzling casualty in this tug-of-war is Albert Glock, a prominent American archeologist, who devoted his life to helping Palestinians find evidence of their historic roots...

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Rated 5 stars
Local complexity of Israeli-Palestinian conflict

How important can archeology be today? Unbelievably crucial. In this part of the world it is the justification for worldview, religion, the meaning of life. It seems all of the parties involved come off are charlatans, awful human beings, and trying to justify their own criminality via archeology. This poor Dr Glock gets ineptly kmixed up in it and gets himself killed. No matter how complex the issues of Palestine/Israel...

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Rated 5 stars
Fascinating and compelling!

A well-written, compelling account of the politics and various agendas of two centuries of archaeology in Palestine and Israel, as well as as a troubling and eye-opening study of social, political, and crime issues in Israel and the Occupied Territories in the '90s.

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Provocative,thoughtful, repectful and ultimately balanced

The murder of the archaeologist, Albert Glock,proved the setting for this book's multifacted investigation into turbulent Palestine and Israel. It is an engrossing tale, and excellently written. The author considers a number of credible explanations before, on the balance of probabilities, linking the murder to rogue young Palestinian militants. It is a fair minded work, concentrating on the cultural storm surrounding archaeology...

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Rated 5 stars
An important topic

A fantastic book that outlines the field of Palestinian archeology. How successive generations of the decendents of Ka'annan lived off the same land. How history destroys a people when it is written by outsiders & unchallenged for 2000 years & finally adopted in tragic irony by the very people it eventually dispossesses. It is therefore fitting that the founder of Palestinian archeology, Albert Glock, is a non-Palestinian...

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Pious Biblical Archaeology Is Not Just A Cultural Lag

Fox's severe comments on the biblicism perpetuated by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and some protestant denominations trenchently remind us that pious ignorance can be invidious. Reading the biblical text as religious testimony rather than history has been taught by scholars for most of the past century! Yet the perpetually purblind have influenced too much of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict over whose land this is!...

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