Lawrence, Egg Whites or Turnips? (Wipf & Stock)

NEW BOOK FROM WIPF AND STOCK:

Egg Whites or Turnips?
Archaeology and Bible Translation

by Paul J. N. Lawrence
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
178 Pages, 5.00 x 8.00 x 0.00 in

Paperback
9781725260351
Published: June 2020
$23.00 / £18.00 / AU$32.00

Hardcover
9781725260344v Published: June 2020
$43.00 / £33.00 / AU$59.00 v eBookv 9781725260368
Published: June 2020
$23.00 / £17.00 / AU$34.00

DESCRIPTION

Why are Bible translations so different from each other in places? Don't Bible translators know whether it was peacocks or baboons that King Solomon brought into Israel? Why has "sapphire" been replaced by "lapis lazuli" in some more modern versions? What animal provided the leather for the tabernacle? A badger? A sea cow? Or did the term in question simply mean "leather"? Can archaeology tell us what David's harp looked like? What is the evidence for leprosy in Bible times? Is there evidence for cotton, silk, and chickens at the time of the Bible? Answers to these and many other questions are given in this book. But how are such questions to be answered? Essentially the answer is "from the ground"--what can be called "archaeology." This book explores how, over the past two centuries, archaeology has shed its light on the text of the Bible.

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