Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology

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The Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology are a series of lectures delivered and published under the auspices of the British Academy. 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 Schweich Lectures remain a highly regarded forum on Biblical Archaeology. The three papers given by each lecturer are published together in book form, by Oxford University Press. 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

1911. The Philistines: Their History and Civilization. by R A Stewart Macalister

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

1915. The Text of the Old Testament. by Édouard Naville

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. by A E Cowley

1919. Lectures on the Apocalypse. by R H Charles

1920. The Septuagint 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. by Israel Abrahams

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

1924. Kings of the Hittites. by David George Hogarth

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

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

1937. The Cuneiform Texts of Ras Shamra-Ugarit. by Claude F A Schaeffer

1937. Early Churches in Palestine. by J W Crowfoot

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. by Paul E Kahle

1942. Some Hellenistic Elements in Primitive Christianity. by Wilfred L Knox

1943. The Poem of Job: 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

1948. From Joseph to Joshua: Biblical Traditions in the Light of Archaeology. by H H Rowley

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

1963. Amorites and Canaanites. by Kathleen M Kenyon

1967. Ethiopia and the Bible. by Edward Ullendorff

1970. Hazor. by Yigael Yadin

1972. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. by Charles Coüasnon

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

1995. Translating the Bible: The Ethiopic Version of the Old Testament. by Michael A Knibb

2001. Idols of the People: Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East. by P R S Moorey

External links

http://www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/cat/schweich.html Schweich Lectures page on British Academy website.

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