196467 Resource 169992 170084 170084 1202250724987 1202251429950 Controlled Archaeology and Jerusalem

Can archaeology help bring peace in that city?

Speak of archaeology and most in the western world think of <country-region w:st="on" />Israel</country-region />, with <city w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />Jerusalem</place /></city /> at its center.  That’s the result of cultural attachments through the religion(s) we have inherited.A fascinating study of archaeology in this area is presented by <personname w:st="on" /><givenname w:st="on" />Raphael</givenname /> <sn w:st="on" />Greenberg</sn /></personname /> in the latest <a href="http://www.jewishquarterly.org/article.asp?articleid=325">Jewish Quarterly</a> and is worth a read.  Greenberg examines the history and motivation of the pursuit of archaeology and concludes by asking whether archaeology could contribute to peace in <city w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />Jerusalem</place /></city />?  To this end he makes some suggestions.<a href="http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/archaeology/directory/dir_rafi_greenberg.html">Greenberg</a> has been involved in archaeology in Jerusalem since the 1970's.  He has worked for the Israel Antiquities Authority and is a Senior Lecturer at Tel Aviv University.My suggestion – the whole article is worth a read.H/T to <a href="http://www.claudemariottini.com/blog/2008/02/archaeology-and-politics.html">Claude Mariottini</a> 10 application/xml false archaeology Jersualem Jewish Quarterly Raphael Greenberg Temple Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 pnathan 66.125.198.98 false true false false true 188838 false false true false false false true 169992 blog blogsite/FirstFollowers/web