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CONTACT: Beth L. Lorow Three lectures on "Archaeology and the bible" to be held at Messiah College GRANTHAM, Pa. (Oct. 18, 2005) — The Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science and the Messiah College Department of Biblical and Religious Studies will sponsor three lectures on “Archaeology and the Bible” on Nov. 11 and 12. The featured speaker will be Thomas W. Davis, Ph.D., the director of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus. The first lecture, “The Rise and Fall of Biblical Archaeology: towards a new paradigm,” will be on Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. in Hostetter Chapel on the college’s Grantham campus. The second lecture, “Archaeology and the Old Testament: New data on the Egyptian Frontier and the route of the Exodus,” will be held on Nov. 12 at 9 a.m. in Hostetter Chapel. The third lecture, “Archaeology and the New Testament: New Data on Cyprus and the Pauline World,” will take place on Nov. 12 at 10:30 a.m. in Hostetter Chapel. All three lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.messiah.edu/godandscience/fall05/tom_davis.html or contact Ted Davis, professor of the history of science at Messiah College, at (717) 766-2511, extension 6840. A Christian archaeologist who has done field work on four continents, Thomas Davis is the author of “Shifting Sands: The Rise and Fall of Biblical Archaeology” (Oxford University Press, 2004). A former student of William Dever at the University of Arizona, Davis directs the Cypriot branch of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls more than 2,900 undergraduate students in 50 majors. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg. A satellite campus affiliated with Temple University is located in Philadelphia. # # # ARTICLE DATE: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2005 |
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