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William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891– September 19, 1971) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics.
May 20, 2024 · W.F. Albright was an American biblical archaeologist and Middle Eastern scholar, noted especially for his excavations of biblical sites. The son of American Methodist missionaries living abroad, Albright came with his family to the United States in 1903. He obtained his doctorate in Semitic.
Sep 20, 1971 · Emeritus professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins University since 1958, Dr. Albright directed numerous archeological expeditions to Palestine, South Arabia and elsewhere in the...
William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891 – September 19, 1971) was an American archaeologist, known as a key figure of the twentieth century biblical archaeology movement. A noted biblical scholar, historian, linguist and expert in ancient ceramics, Albright obtained his doctorate in Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins University and later ...
Mar 4, 2009 · In his day, William Foxwell Albright was regarded with the highest esteem by scholars in biblical and archaeological studies. In recent decades, his approach is usually dismissed with an disparaging, how-could-anybody-be-so-naive elevation of the nostrils.
William Foxwell Albright (1891-1971) was an evangelical American Methodist archaeologist, biblical scholar, linguist, and expert on ceramics. He was born in Coquimbo, Chile to Protestant missionaries Wilbur Finley and Zephine Viola Foxwell Albright. He married Dr. Ruth Norton in 1921 in Jerusalem, and they had four sons.
William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891 to Sep 20, 1971) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, linguist and expert on ceramics. From the early twentieth century until his death, he was the “dean” of biblical archaeologists and the universally acknowledged founder of the Biblical archaeology movement (excerpt from Wikipedia).
and developed by William Foxwell Albright was the typological method. Here he introduced systematic precision into the fields of ceramic forms and into the history of poetic canons and style, into the typology of linguistic change, and into the onomastic and palaeographical typologies.
Feb 2, 2012 · The American Orientalist William F. Albright (1891–1971) is remembered as a leading voice of twentieth-century “biblical archaeology,” a field that aimed to demonstrate empirically the Hebrew Bible's substantial historicity.
william foxwell albright 19 using carbon 14 (14C) reached Albright, he announced in an Associated Press article that he was eager to try out the new technique in Egypt and the Bible lands; Albright was always eager to apply new discoveries and new methods to archaeological and biblical research.
