Tracing the Influence of Prominent ANE Archaeologists

 

Credit: Harvard Gazette

This is a fascinating research project about archaeologists in Biblical lands and how they influenced others in the field. The survey demonstrates that the surveyed scholars are more interested in their actual research material than in the history of their discipline. That suggests that they may not be acknowledging the influence of those who broke ground for them (pun intended!)

The survey yielded 539 names of individual scholars, with a total of 441 links showing advisor/advisee relationships for those who received a PhD.

ANE TODAY - 202211 - Who Are You? Preliminary Results of the Academic Genealogies of Near Eastern Scholars (AGNES) Project - American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)

Here is the PDF of the article.

Related reading: F.W. Albright; Frank Moore Cross, Freidrich Delitzsch, Ignace Jay Gelb, Kathleen Kenyon; Julius Lewy, Max Margolis, Benjamin Mazar, E.A. Speiser