Recommended Reading
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:59 am
Hope you chaps won't mind a new kid on the block opening a thread in this section of the forums.
As I mentioned in an introductory post, my reading on archaeology has been pretty superficial over the years -- magazine articles, articles on the web or archaeology-dedicated chapters included in books where the main focus was elsewhere; so I'm keen to play catch-up so that I might be able to contribute something here.
So far, I've ordered *The Bible Unearthed* (a fair startng point, I'm told) and I'll spend the weekend reading in the forum here and following what links there are in the hope of discovering more literature that can be understood by the layman.
I wondered, though, if perhaps those of you with some study under your belts might kick off a reading list by, from time to time, suggesting books on the subject at hand (in my case for a raw beginner, but maybe there's also value in swapping reading recommendations for those with more experience) in a fixed thread on the boards.
Eighteen months or so ago when I joined another forum, I found book recommendations from those more clued up on, for instance, ancient middle eastern history invaluable. Special thanks to Seeker for several good suggestions, by the way.
Best wishes. Neil
As I mentioned in an introductory post, my reading on archaeology has been pretty superficial over the years -- magazine articles, articles on the web or archaeology-dedicated chapters included in books where the main focus was elsewhere; so I'm keen to play catch-up so that I might be able to contribute something here.
So far, I've ordered *The Bible Unearthed* (a fair startng point, I'm told) and I'll spend the weekend reading in the forum here and following what links there are in the hope of discovering more literature that can be understood by the layman.
I wondered, though, if perhaps those of you with some study under your belts might kick off a reading list by, from time to time, suggesting books on the subject at hand (in my case for a raw beginner, but maybe there's also value in swapping reading recommendations for those with more experience) in a fixed thread on the boards.
Eighteen months or so ago when I joined another forum, I found book recommendations from those more clued up on, for instance, ancient middle eastern history invaluable. Special thanks to Seeker for several good suggestions, by the way.
Best wishes. Neil