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| rdfs:label | - Biblical archaeology school
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| rdfs:comment | - The Biblical archaeology school is the name given to a school of archeology founded on the work of William F. Albright, Director of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), (now the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research) through the 1920s and 1930s and editor of ASOR's Bulletin until 1968.
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| abstract | - The Biblical archaeology school is the name given to a school of archeology founded on the work of William F. Albright, Director of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), (now the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research) through the 1920s and 1930s and editor of ASOR's Bulletin until 1968. Albright and his followers believed that archaeology could and should be used to shed light on the Biblical narrative, particularly the Old Testament. The influential academic positions held by Albright and his followers, and their immense output - Albright alone was the author of over a thousand books and articles - made their work highly influential, especially in America, and especially among ordinary Christians who wished to believe that archaeology had proved the Bible true. In fact the members of the school were not biblical literalists, and their main concern was to discriminate between those parts of the biblical story which were true and those which were embellishments.
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