William Foxwell Albright (1891–1971)
Auteur de Matthew: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (The Anchor Bible, Vol. 26)
A propos de l'auteur
Born in Coquimbo, Chile, William F. Albright, a preeminent orientalist, was the son of American missionary parents. By 1903 the family returned to the United States, where they would spend their next years in several small-town parsonages in the Midwest. At 16, as a student at the Senior Academy afficher plus preparatory department of Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa, the precocious Albright taught himself Hebrew, using his father's inductive grammar. After receiving his A.B. from Upper Iowa in 1912 and serving one year as a high school principal, Albright embarked on a graduate program in Semitic Studies at Johns Hopkins University. At Johns Hopkins, Albright came under the influence of the well-established German-trained orientalist, Paul Haupt. From him Albright learned to appreciate the role that Babylonian texts might play in solving biblical cruxes. Even so, he eventually came to distance himself from Haupt's radical biblical scholarship. Receiving his Ph.D. in 1916, Albright remained at Johns Hopkins until called into military service. His lengthy tenure in Palestine began in 1919, when he was invited to engage in postdoctoral research at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem. From 1920 to 1929, and again from 1933 to 1936, he functioned as director of the school. Recognized for his remarkable linguistic talent and passion for ancient texts, Albright was designated W. W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages at Johns Hopkins in 1929. His command of Assyriology, Egyptology, Northwest Semitic philology, and ancient Near Eastern history was phenomenal. For an entire generation, Albright's contributions to American biblical scholarship and Syro-Palestinian archaeology were legion. His academic breadth led to his elections as president of the American Oriental Society (1935) and the Society of Biblical Literature (1939). During his residency in Palestine, Albright became acquainted with its history, pottery, and customs, both ancient and modern. He experienced Palestine as the land of the Bible. Between 1926 and 1932, he directed four seasons of excavation at Tell Beit Mirsim in southern Judah. So fully did Albright master its pottery and stratigraphy that his ceramic chronology for the Bronze and Iron Ages (c.3500-600 B.C.) remains in use even today. Largely under Albright's tutelage, the first Jewish archaeologists in Palestine became active in the field. Thus, Albright helped to lay the foundations of the later "Israeli School" of archaeology. Albright was no fundamentalist, but he often reacted against the excesses of an earlier European-style literary criticism that discredited the Bible as a viable source of history. This gifted historian of religion was capable of perceiving sweeping vistas. His well-known volumes, The Archaeology of Palestine and From the Stone Age to Christianity, are two among many that effectively interpret the Bible in relation to its multifaceted environment. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de William Foxwell Albright
Matthew: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (The Anchor Bible, Vol. 26) (1971) — Traducteur — 452 exemplaires
Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan: An Historical Analysis of Two Contrasting Faiths (1968) 117 exemplaires
Anchor Bible 81 exemplaires
The evidence of language 6 exemplaires
Amarna Letters from Palestine, Syria, the Philistines and Phoenicia (Cambridge Ancient History) (1966) 4 exemplaires
The Vocalization of the Egyptian Syllabic Orthography (American Oriental Series, Volume 5) (1934) 3 exemplaires
The Anchor Bible: Mark 1-8 2 exemplaires
The Excavation of Tell Beit Mirsim in Palestine, Vol. 1: The Pottery of the First Three Campaigns (The Annual of the… (1932) 2 exemplaires
The Excavation of Tell Beit Mirsim Vol. III: The Iron Age [The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research… 2 exemplaires
Die Bibel im Licht der Altertumsforschung ein Bericht über die Arbeit eines Jahrhunderts (1957) 2 exemplaires
From the Patriarchs to Moses: From Abraham to Joseph 1 exemplaire
The Anchor Bible - Volume 26 1 exemplaire
Scrolls and Christianity 1 exemplaire
"The Chronology of the Divided Monarchy of Israel." 1 exemplaire
Matthew. Introduction, Translation, and Notes by W. F. Albright and C. S. Mann [The Anchor Bible, Vol. 26] 1 exemplaire
The Antiquity of Mosaic Law 1 exemplaire
The Old Testament World 1 exemplaire
King Joiachin in Exile 1 exemplaire
From the Patriarchs to Moses II. Moses Out of Egypt 1 exemplaire
The Anchor Bible: The Letter of Philemon 1 exemplaire
The Amarna Letters from Palestine (Fascicle 51) 1 exemplaire
[Review of] Albright, William F., From the stone age to Christianity;: Monotheism and the historical process.… 1 exemplaire
Biblical Period (Reprinted by permission from 'The Jews: Their History, Culture & Religion' edited by Louis… 1 exemplaire
"New Material for the Egyptian Syllabic Orthography" 1 exemplaire
Samuel and the beginnings of the prophetic movement 1 exemplaire
Early Hebrew Poetry: Collected Articles 1 exemplaire
The Anchor Bible: I Corinthians 1 exemplaire
The anchor Bible: Psalms 1-50 1 exemplaire
The anchor Bible: Jeremiah 1 exemplaire
The anchor Bible: Jeremiah 21.36 1 exemplaire
The anchor Bible: The wisdom of Ben Sira 1 exemplaire
The Anchor Bible: 2 Chronicles 1 exemplaire
Archaeology and the Religion of the Land of Israel 1 exemplaire
From the Stoneage to Christianity 1 exemplaire
"What Were the Cherubim?" 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Acts of the Apostles (Anchor Bible, Vol 31) (1967) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 347 exemplaires
Translating & Understanding the Old Testament: Essays in Honor of Herbert Gordon May (1970) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Albright, W. F.
- Date de naissance
- 1891-05-24
- Date de décès
- 1971-09-19
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
Chile - Lieu de naissance
- Coquimbo, Chile
- Lieu du décès
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Coquimbo, Chile
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Jerusalem, Israel - Études
- Upper Iowa University (BA|1912)
Johns Hopkins University (PhD|1916) - Professions
- archaeologist
biblical scholar
Professor of Semitic languages - Relations
- Baumgarten, Joseph M. (student)
- Organisations
- W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR ∙ former ASOR)
International Congress of Orientalists
Archaeological Institute of America
Society of Biblical Literature
International Organization of Old Testament Scholars
Catholic Biblical Association
Membres
Critiques
De la edad de piedra al cristianismo : el marco… par William Foxwell Albright
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This is a short historical survey by an preeminent scholar. It helped me in my early studies of the Bible.
If you want to understand the history of the study of the Ancient Near East, Israel and the Bible during the first sixty years of the twentieth century, this is an essential book, written by one who lived through it all, an eyewitness. For all specialists in Old Testament studies, this is required reading.
Edition: Revised Edition of Volumes I and II // Descr: 58 p. 23.5 cm. // Series: The Cambridge Ancient History Call No. { } Contains Bibliography and Chronological Table. // //
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