The ''Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology'' are a series of lectures delivered and published under the auspices of the

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. The Leopold Schweich Trust Fund, set up in 1907, was a gift from Miss Constance Schweich in memory of her father. It provided for three public lectures to be delivered annually (now triennially) on subjects related to ‘the archaeology, art, history, languages and literature of Ancient Civilization with reference to Biblical Study’. The three papers given by each lecturer are published together in book form, by

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. There have been many reprintings.

Catalogue of titles

Book details are preceded by the year of delivery of the lectures. The date of publication is usually a year or two later. *1908. Modern Research as illustrating the Bible. by S.R. Driver *1909. The Composition of the Book of Isaiah in the Light of History and Archaeology. by Robert H Kennett *1910. The Early Poetry of Israel in its Physical and Social Origins. by

George Adam Smith :''Note in particular that this George Smith is to be distinguished from George Smith (Assyriologist) (1840–1876) who researched in some overlapping areas.'' Sir George Adam Smith (19 October 1856 – 3 March 1942) was a Scottish th ...

*1911. The

Philistines Philistines (; LXX: ; ) were ancient people who lived on the south coast of Canaan during the Iron Age in a confederation of city-states generally referred to as Philistia. There is compelling evidence to suggest that the Philistines origi ...

: Their History and Civilization. by

R. A. Stewart Macalister Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (8 July 1870 – 26 April 1950) was an Irish archaeologist. Biography Macalister was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Alexander Macalister, then Professor of Zoology, University of Dublin. His father w ...

*1912. The Relations between the Laws of Babylonia and the Laws of the Hebrew Peoples. by C H W Johns *1913. Jewish and Christian Apocalypses. by F. Crawford Burkitt *1914. Une Communauté Judéo-Araméenne à Éléphantine, en Égypte, aux VIe et Ve Siècles av. J.-C. by

A van Hoonacker A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient G ...

*1915. The Text of the Old Testament. by

Édouard Naville Henri Édouard Naville (14 June 1844 – 17 October 1926) was a Swiss archaeologist, Egyptologist and Biblical scholar. Born in Geneva, he studied at the University of Geneva, King's College, London, and the Universities of Bonn, Paris, an ...

*1916. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew Tradition. by Leonard W. King *1917. Israel’s Settlement in Canaan: The Biblical Tradition and its Historical Background. by C F Burney *1918. The

Hittites The Hittites () were an Anatolian peoples, Anatolian Proto-Indo-Europeans, Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of the Bronze Age in West Asia. Possibly originating from beyond the Black Sea, they settled in mo ...

. by A. E. Cowley *1919. Lectures on the Apocalypse. by R. H. Charles *1920. The

Septuagint The Septuagint ( ), sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (), and abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Biblical Hebrew. The full Greek ...

and Jewish Worship: A Study in Origins. by H St John Thackeray *1921. The Relations between Arabs and Israelites prior to the Rise of Islam. by D S Margoliouth *1922. Campaigns in Palestine from

Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon (; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip ...

. by

Israel Abrahams Israel Abrahams, MA ''(honoris causa)'' (b. London, 26 November 1858; d. Cambridge, 6 October 1925) was one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation. He wrote a number of classics on Judaism, most notably, ''Jewish Life in the ...

*1923. The Samaritans: Their History, Doctrines and Literature. by

Moses Gaster Moses Gaster (17 September 1856 – 5 March 1939) was a Romanian, later British scholar, the ''Hakham'' of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish congregation, London, and a Hebrew and Romanian linguist. Moses Gaster was an active Zionist in Rom ...

*1924. Kings of the

. by

David George Hogarth David George Hogarth (23 May 1862 – 6 November 1927), also known as D. G. Hogarth, was a British orientalist archaeologist and scholar associated with T. E. Lawrence and Arthur Evans. He was Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford from 1909 ...

*1925. The Religion of Ancient Palestine in the Light of Archaeology. by Stanley A Cook *1926. Palestine in General History. by Theodore H. Robinson, J. W. Hunkin & F.C. Burkitt *1927. The Apocalypse in Art. by

Montague Rhodes James Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English medievalist scholar and author who served as provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936) as well as Vice-Chancellor of the Univers ...

*1928. The Old and New Testaments in Muslim Religious Art. by Thomas W Arnold *1929. A Comparative Study of the Literatures of Egypt, Palestine, and Mesopotamia: Egypt’s Contribution to the Literature of the Ancient World. by T. Eric Peet *1930. Ancient Synagogues in Palestine and Greece. by E L Sukenik *1931. Ancient Hebrew Social Life and Custom as Indicated in Law, Narrative and Metaphor. by R. H. Kennett *1932. Recent Developments in the Textual Criticism of the Greek Bible. by Frederic G. Kenyon *1933. Babylonian Menologies and the Semitic Calendars. by S. Langdon *1934. Archaeological History of Iran. by Ernst E. Herzfeld *1935. The Origins of Early Semitic Ritual. by S. H. Hooke *1936. The Cuneiform Texts of Ras Shamra-Ugarit. by Claude F. A. Schaeffer *1937. Early Churches in Palestine. by

John Winter Crowfoot John Winter Crowfoot CBE (28 July 1873 – 6 December 1959) was a British educational administrator and archaeologist. He worked for 25 years in Egypt and Sudan, serving from 1914 to 1926 as Director of Education in the Sudan, before accepting a ...

*1938. The Work of the Chronicler: Its Purpose and its Date. by Adam C. Welch *1939. The Hebrew Bible in Art. by Jacob Leveen *1940. Isaiah Chapters XL–LV: Literary Criticism and History. by Sidney Smith *1941. The

Cairo Geniza The Cairo Geniza, alternatively spelled the Cairo Genizah, is a collection of some 400,000 Judaism, Jewish manuscript fragments and Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimid administrative documents that were kept in the ''genizah'' or storeroom of the Ben Ezra ...

. by Paul E. Kahle *1942. Some Hellenistic Elements in Primitive Christianity. by Wilfred Knox *1943. The Poem of

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: A Literary Study with a New Translation. by William Barron Stevenson *1944. Semitic Writing, from Pictograph to Alphabet. by G. R. Driver *1945. Ideas of Divine Rule in the Ancient East. by C. J. Gadd *1946. The Text of the Epistles: A Disquisition upon the Corpus Paulinum. by G. Zuntz *1947. The Contribution of Demotic to the Study of Egyptian History. by Stephen Glanville *1948. From Joseph to Joshua: Biblical Traditions in the Light of Archaeology. by H. H. Rowley *1949. Les Archives de Mari dans ses Rapports avec l’Ancien Testament. by Georges Dossin *1950. The Phoenicians. by A. M. Honeyman *1951. The Original Form of the Old New Testament. by G. D. Kilpatrick *1953. Les Araméens. by

André Dupont-Sommer André Dupont-Sommer (23 December 1900, Marnes-la-Coquette – 14 May 1983, Paris) was a French semitologist. He specialized in the history of Judaism around the beginning of the Common Era, and especially the Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea ...

*1955. Assyria and the Old Testament. by

Max Mallowan Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) was a prominent British archaeologist and academic, specializing in the Ancient Near East. Having studied classics at Oxford University, he was trained for archaeology by Leonard W ...

*1957. Une collection de Paroles de Jésus récemment découverte: L’Évangile selon Thomas. by

Henri-Charles Puech Henri-Charles Puech (; 20 July 1902, Montpellier – 11 January 1986, aged 83) was a French historian who long held the chair of History of religions at the Collège de France from 1952 to 1972. Biography A philosopher by training, he was interes ...

*1959. L’Archéologie et les Manuscrits de la Mer Morte. by

Roland de Vaux Roland Guérin de Vaux (17 December 1903 – 10 September 1971) was a French Dominican priest who led the Catholic team that initially worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He was the director of the École Biblique, a French Catholic Theological S ...

*1961. Social Organisation of Pre-Islamic South Arabia. by

Alfred Felix Landon Beeston Alfred Felix Landon Beeston, FBA (23 February 1911 – 29 September 1995) was an English Orientalist best known for his studies of Arabic language and literature, and of ancient Yemeni inscriptions, as well as the history of pre-Islamic Arabia. ...

*1963.

Amorites The Amorites () were an ancient Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic-speaking Bronze Age people from the Levant. Initially appearing in Sumerian records c. 2500 BC, they expanded and ruled most of the Levant, Mesopotamia and parts of Eg ...

and Canaanites. by Kathleen M. Kenyon *1965. Mari, Ugarit, Hamath: Archaeological Contributions from Ancient Syria to the Old Testament, by Harald Ingholt *1967. Ethiopia and the Bible. by

Edward Ullendorff Edward Ullendorff (25 January 1920 – 6 March 2011) was a British scholar of Semitic languages and Ethiopian studies. Biography Ullendorff was born on 25 January 1920 in Berlin, Germany, to an upper-class, secular Jewish family. His parents ...

*1970. Hazor. by

Yigael Yadin Yigael Yadin ( ; 20 March 1917 – 28 June 1984) was an Israeli archeologist, soldier and politician. He was the second Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and Deputy Prime Minister from 1977 to 1981. Biography Yigael Sukenik (later Y ...

*1972. The

Church of the Holy Sepulchre The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, Old City of Jerusalem. The church is the seat of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchat ...

in Jerusalem. by Charles Coüasnon *1974. Mari et l'Ancien Testament. by

André Parrot André Charles Ulrich Parrot (15 February 1901 – 24 August 1980) was a French archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East. He led excavations in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, and is best known for his work at Mari, Syria, where he led imp ...

*1976. Some Aspects of Hittite Religion. by O.R. Gurney *1977. Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early Christian Egypt. by Colin H. Roberts *1983. Nebuchadrezzar and Babylon. by D. J. Wiseman *1984. Mari and the Early Israelite Experience. by Abraham Malamat *1986. The Variable Spellings of the Hebrew Bible. by James Barr *1989. The Bible in the Syriac Churches. by

Sebastian Brock Sebastian Paul Brock (born 1938, London) is a British scholar, university professor, and specialist in the field of academic studies of Classical Syriac language and Classical Syriac literature. His research also encompasses various aspects of ...

*1992. Ancient Interpretation of Sacred Books. by Henry Chadwick *1995. Translating the Bible: The Ethiopic Version of the Old Testament. by Michael A Knibb *1998. Symbol Systems of Ancient Palestine, in the light of Scarabs and Similar Seal-amulets. by Othmar Keel *2001. Idols of the People: Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East. by P.R.S. Moorey *2004.

Ashkelon Ashkelon ( ; , ; ) or Ashqelon, is a coastal city in the Southern District (Israel), Southern District of Israel on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast, south of Tel Aviv, and north of the border with the Gaza Strip. The modern city i ...

, Seaport of the Canaanites and the Philistines. by

Lawrence Stager Lawrence E. "Larry" Stager (January 5, 1943 – December 29, 2017) was an American archaeologist and academic, specialising in Syro-Palestinian archaeology and Biblical archaeology. He was the Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel in t ...

*2007.

Ugaritic Ugaritic () is an extinct Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language known through the Ugaritic texts discovered by French archaeology, archaeologists in 1928 at Ugarit, including several major literary texts, notably the Baal cycl ...

and the Beginnings of the West-Semitic Literary Tradition by Dennis G Pardee *2008. Archaeology and the Bible: A Broken Link? by Graham Davies *2010. Religion and Community in the Roman Near East: Constantine to Mahomet. by

Fergus Millar Sir Fergus Graham Burtholme Millar, (; 5 July 1935 – 15 July 2019) was a British ancient historian and academic. He was Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford between 1984 and 2002. He is among the most influentia ...

*2013. Levantine Epigraphy and History in the Achaemenid Period. by

André Lemaire André Lemaire (born 1942) is a French epigrapher, historian and philologist. He is Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études, where he teaches Hebraic and Aramean philology and epigraphy. He specializes in West-Semitic ol ...

*2016. Re-excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology. by Kay Prag *2019. The

Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts, ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period (516 BCE – 70 CE). They were discovered over a period of ten years, between ...

as archaeological artefacts, by George J. Brooke

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