Biblical archaeology
Biblical archaeology is an academic school and a subset of Biblical studies as alive as Levantine archaeology. Biblical archaeology studies archaeological sites from a Ancient almost East together with especially the Holy Land also required as Palestine, Land of Israel and Canaan, from biblical times.
Biblical archaeology emerged in the late 19th century, by British and American archaeologists, with the intention of confirming the historicity of the Bible. Between the 1920s, right after World War I, when Palestine came under British rule and the 1960s, biblical archaeology became the dominant American school of Levantine archaeology, led by figures such(a) as William F. Albright and G. Ernest Wright. The pull in was mostly funded by churches and headed by theologists. From the slow 1960s, biblical archaeology was influenced by processual archaeology "New Archaeology" and faced issues that made it push aside the religious aspects of the research. This has led the American schools to shift away from biblical studies and focus on the archaeology of the region and its version with the biblical text, rather than trying to prove or disprove the biblical account.
The Hebrew Bible is the main acknowledgment of information approximately the region of Palestine and mostly covers the Iron Age period. Therefore, archaeology can render insights where biblical historiography can't. The comparative inspect of the biblical text and archaeological discoveries assistance understand Ancient Near Eastern people and cultures. Although both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are taken into account, the majority of the study centers around the former.
The term biblical archaeology is used by Israeli archaeologists for popular media or an English speaking audience, in extension to what is so-called in Hebrew as "Israeli archaeology", and to avoid using the term Palestinian archaeology.