Digging up armageddon : the search for the Lost City of Solomon /
"In 1925, James Henry Breasted, famed Egyptologist and director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, sent a team of archaeologists to the Holy Land to excavate the ancient site of Megiddo--Armageddon in the New Testament--which the Bible says was fortified by King Solomon. Th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations
- Preface : "Welcome to Armageddon"
- Prologue : "Have Found Solomon's Stables"
- Part One : 1920-1926
- Chapter I : "Please Accept My Resignation"
- Chapter II : "He Must Knock Off or You Will Bury Him"
- Chapter III : "A Fairly Sharp Rap on the Knuckles"
- Chapter IV : "We Have Already Three Distinct Levels"
- Part Two : 1927-1934
- Chapter V : "I Really Need a Bit of a Holiday"
- Chapter VI : "They Can Be Nothing Else Than Stables"
- Chapter VII : "Admonitory but Merciful"
- Chapter VIII : "The Tapping of the Pickmen"
- Chapter IX : "The Most Sordid Document"
- Chapter X : "Either a Battle or an Earthquake"
- Part Three : 1935-1939
- Chapter XI : "A Rude Awakening"
- Chapter XII : "The Director is Gone"
- Chapter XIII : "You Asked for the Sensational"
- Chapter XIV : "A Miserable Death Threat"
- Chapter XV : "The Stratigraphical Skeleton"
- Part Four : 1940-2020
- Chapter XVI : "Instructions Had Been Given to Protect This Property"
- Epilogue : "Certain Digging Areas Remain Incompletely Excavated"
- Cast of Characters: Chicago Expedition Staff and Spouses
- Year by Year List of Chicago Expedition Staff plus Major Events
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.