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Thursday, January 8, 2009
This Week's Adult Education
We will continue with the second part of Biblical Archaeology, noting that we will have to schedule further meetings in the near future as the sheer volume of material and interest is too daunting for only two sessions.
This week we will learn of Sir Leonard Woolley, Max Mallowan, Kathleen Kenyon, and William F. Albright as they take this discipline away from the treasure hunters of "crypto-archaeology" and place it safely in the science developed by the early Egyptologists.
We will also view maps and a list of discoveries of Biblical places, not to mention visit the increasingly technological world of diggers and squints.
We will meet in the church this Sunday as your vicar really, really needs to be able to move and show charts and pictures when he teaches.