Links to Bethel Student Work
Historical Geography & Archaeology -- OT 710 blog .
Jerusalem Experiment -- Bryan McInnis's blog from "on site"
Links to Historical-Geographical-Sociological Resources
University of University of Southern Maine Osher Map Library: Jerusalem 3000 — a collection of maps maps covering three millennia of history.
University of Texas at Austin's Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection includes an extensive collection of maps of the Near East, both recent and historical.
MERIA (Middle East Review of International Affairs), published by Bar-Ilan University, sponsors this web site which provides links to an impressive array of map resources for study of the Middle East.
Imperial History of the Middle East — a flash animation that covers 5,000 years of history in 90 seconds
Columbia University site linking to Middle East regional and country resources
Bible History site provides an extensive array of links to historical-geographical backgrounds including archaeology and images.
Ancient World Cities web site includes historical notes and artists' conceptions of the city in the 7th cent. B.C
Second Temple Synagogues is a site based on Donald Binder's 1997 Ph.D. dissertation at SMU.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory space radar image shows Jerusalem and the Judean Wilderness, including Bethlehem and Hebron.
Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible Bibliography on Gender Studies/ Women in Antiquity
University College London's Digital Egypt for Universities
The B-Hebrew Mailing List is a forum dedicated to the discussion of Biblical Hebrew language and literature.
Ancient Near East.net is dedicated to electronic resourcing and content provision, Ancient Near East.net forms a dynamic blog, forum and portal site evolving to meet the diverse needs of the Ancient Near East research community (scholars and laypeople alike) for content, ideas, resources and information exchange.
Contemporary "Exploration": Take a virtual
tour of the Middle East at virtualtourist.com
Links to Bible Backgrounds Resources
ABZU: Guide to ANE studies on the Web
ATLA CDRI Database - Images: ANE Artifacts, Sites & Texts
Ancient Egypt - British Museum
Ancient Israel: Its Life & Institutions --Google "preview" of de Vaux's landmark work on culture and society in ancient Israel
Ancient Mesopotamia - British Museum
British Museum Images: Ancient Egypt & Sudan
British Museum Images: Ancient Near East
British Museum Images: Greco-Roman World
The History of the Ancient Near East Electronic Compendium
Oriental Institute Archaeological Site Photography: Egypt
Oriental Institute Archaeological Site Photography: Mesopotamia
Links to on-line articles.
_____. "Geography and the Narrative Shape of Numbers 13," BibSac 157 (2000): 271-280.
_____. "The Narrative-geographical Shaping of 1 Samuel 7:5-13," BibSac 162 (2005): 299-309.
Matthews, Victor & James Moyer . "Bible Atlases: Which Ones are the Best?," BA 53/4 (1990): 220-231.
Rainey, Anson. "Historical Geography - The Link Between Historical and Archaeological Interpretation," BA 45/4 (1982): 217-223.