The American archaeologist and the French Dominican
by Damien F. Mackey A famous name for his authentication of the Dead Se a Scrolls , [Albright] can be a most fascinating study. Although a conventional scholar, schooled in a system of chronology and archaeology that disallows its exponents from being able to demonstrate the historicity of the Bible – and imbued also with the erroneous, pre-archaeological JEDP Documentary Theory – professor Albright yet had the ability occasionally to burst through the seams of that suffocating system and to produce some very insightful new observations. Introduction The nation of ancient Egypt, which had been so biblically prominent when Abram came to Canaan (c. 1900 BC), who was then forced to go to Egypt to survive a famine, and which completely dominated the biblical landscape during the long years of (Jacob) Joseph and Moses, will fade right out of the Bible now, for centuries, after the devastating Plagues, ...
