Blogging from Megiddo

[ehcline]

If anyone is interested, we have set up a blog for the Megiddo excavations, with about 10 bloggers posting, two per day.  We began digging on June 15 and will be going until July 31.  The website is: digmegiddo.wordpress.com

Cheers,  EHC

[Admin1]

Thanks for filling us in

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[archaeologist]

here is the link:

http://digmegiddo.wordpress.com/

It will be run by George Washington University students under the direction of Eric Cline

plus here is another link:

It joins the existing blog by Aren Maier at Tel es-Safi (Gath,)

http://gath.wordpress.com/

[wigwam]

if prof. cline does return to this thread for a visit, it would be interesting to hear his comments regarding the site identification of megiddo. in the tall el-hammam thread prof collins has stated that there exists no in-situ inscriptional evidence on site at megiddo to identify that site as the biblical city (typical of most all "biblical" sites), and that it is identified solely by extra-site geographical evidence from a handful of written sources. this is true so far as i can tell. of course, the bible does mention it, as do some egyptian writings, particularly those of thutmosis iii. collins says that the number of geographical criteria for Sodom from the biblical text are at least triple the number for megiddo. regardless, it would be interesting to see how the geographical arguments from extant texts are applied in the case of identifying the site of megiddo. such a geographical exercise for megiddo could be compared with that for Sodom to test the scientific viability of the geographical approach to each. just a thought.

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