Biblical archaeology

Japanese: 聖書考古学 - せいしょこうこがく(英語表記)Biblical archaeology
Biblical archaeology

Archaeology studies the relationship between the descriptions in the Christian holy books, the Old Testament and the New Testament, and historical facts. Along with Buddhist archaeology, it forms part of religious archaeology. In terms of time, it mainly deals with the period from the 2nd millennium BC, when biblical studies first recognized the consistency between tradition and history, to the completion of the New Testament, that is, from the Middle Bronze Age to the Middle Roman period. Geographically, it focuses on Western Asia and the Mediterranean region, especially Palestine. It began in the 19th century when American E. Robinson (1794-1863) conducted a field survey of place names in the Bible. The subsequent development of biblical archaeology revealed that the Bible was deeply rooted in the ancient culture of the region.

[Tadashi Suzuki]

"Biblical Archaeology" by Andre Parrot, translated by Seiji Hagii and Fumio Yajima (1958, Misuzu Shobo) " "Silent City: The Sacred Stones - An Introduction to Palestinian Archaeology" by J.M. Lundy, translated by Tsunemitsu Anazawa (1976, Gakuseisha)

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Japanese:

キリスト教の聖典『旧約聖書』『新約聖書』の記述と史実との関連を研究する考古学。仏教考古学と並んで、宗教考古学の一部を構成する。時間的には、聖書学が伝承と歴史の最初の整合性を認める紀元前二千年紀から新約諸書が成立し終わるまで、すなわち中期青銅器時代から中期ローマ時代までをおもに扱う。地理的には西アジア、地中海地域とりわけパレスチナが中心となる。19世紀アメリカのE・ロビンソン(1794―1863)が、聖書中の地名の実地調査を行ったことに始まる。その後の聖書考古学の発展は、聖書が、当地の古代の文化に深く根ざして成立していることを明らかにした。

[鈴木忠司]

『アンドレ・パロ著、波木居斉二・矢島文夫訳『聖書の考古学』(1958・みすず書房)』『J・M・ランデイ著、穴沢咊光訳『沈黙の都市・聖なる石〈パレスチナ考古学入門〉』(1976・学生社)』

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