Dawn and Descent: Social Network Analysis and the ASOR Family Trees
The development of ancient Near Eastern archaeology, especially that of the southern Levant, is usually presented through several standard narratives. For American scholars it frequently begins with William F. Albright, who is often referred to as "the father of biblical archaeology." We u...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2024
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Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2024, Volume: 87, Issue: 2, Pages: 122-131 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Levant
/ Archaeology
/ Albright, William Foxwell 1891-1971
/ Delitzsch, Friedrich 1850-1922
/ Research
/ History
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| IxTheo Classification: | BC Ancient Orient; religion HA Bible |
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| Summary: | The development of ancient Near Eastern archaeology, especially that of the southern Levant, is usually presented through several standard narratives. For American scholars it frequently begins with William F. Albright, who is often referred to as "the father of biblical archaeology." We undertook to test this narrative by surveying current scholars and using three separate metrics of social network analysis (SNA) on the resulting academic genealogies. Our preliminary results indicate that while a portion of active American archaeologists and biblicists do indeed trace their academic lineage back to Albright, an even larger portion, including Israeli archaeologists and various American Egyptologists and Assyriologists, are scholarly descendants of Albright’s academic cousins, all of whom can trace themselves back to the German Assyriologist Friedrich Delitzsch, who seems to have been the real father of the discipline, genealogically speaking. We also determined that academic lineage does not inhibit intellectual diversification. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-5404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Near Eastern archaeology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/729866 |