Bryant Wood
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Bryant G. Wood is an evangelical biblical archaeologist, and Creationist Director of the Associates for Biblical Research. He is best known for his 1990 redating of the destruction of Jericho to accord with the biblical chronology of c. 1400 BC - the proposal was later (1995) shown to be unsustainable, and Kathleen Kenyon's dating of c. 1550 BC remains the accepted chronology for the site.
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Biography
-Bryant Wood attended Syracuse University, graduating with a B.S. in mechanical engineering, later earning a M.S. in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY.
-He later pursued Biblical and archaeological studies and received an M.A. in Biblical History from the University of Michigan in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Syro-Palestinian archaeology from the University of Toronto in 1985.
-Dr. Wood is a specialist in Canaanite pottery of the Late Bronze Age. He is author of The Sociology of Pottery in Ancient Palestine: The Ceramic Industry and the Diffusion of Ceramic Style in the Bronze and Iron Ages (1990), as well as numerous articles on archaeological subjects. In addition, Dr. Wood serves as editor of the quarterly publication Bible and Spade.
-Dr. Wood received international attention for his proposed redating of ancient Jericho, arguing unsuccessfully for the historicity of the Biblical account of the capture of the city by the Israelites. He has also written on entry of the Philistines into Canaan, and on historicity of the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
-Bryant G. Wood is currently Director of the Associates for Biblical Research. Dr. Wood received international attention for his research on ancient Jericho, which argued for the historicity of the Biblical account of the capture of the city by the Israelites. In addition, Dr. Wood has written on the subject of when the Philistines entered Canaan and has written on the subject of archaeology and the Biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Dr. Wood attended Syracuse University, graduating with a B.S. in mechanical engineering
-He and his wife Faith live in Harrisburg, PA. Dr. Wood has served as an AIIA Resource Associate since March of 1997.
-Bryant Wood, a research and teaching ministry headquartered in southeastern Pennsylvania, says the discipline emerged partly in response to liberal textual criticism.
-But Wood believes the assertion by Dever and other scholars that "fundamentalists" are simply using archaeology as a means to prove the Bible is an overstatement. ... "I've gone back and tried to find the reports or the articles that he's talking about where these pioneers and early archaeologists were trying to 'prove the Bible,' " Wood says. ... Wood and his associates have sponsored several small excavations in Israel in attempts to identify the site of Ai, the city the Bible says Joshua and the Israelites destroyed shortly after taking Jericho. ... In 1990 Wood wrote a BAR article titled "Did the Israelites Conquer Jericho? A New Look at the Archaeological Evidence." Wood says detailed analyses of Kenyon's excavation, and earlier digs at the site, contradict Kenyon's own conclusions, but no professional publication has published his research.
"I've been turned down by three different journals," Wood says. ... "They make fantastic and sensational claims, like finding chariot wheels in the Red Sea or finding the tablets of the Ten Commandments, or the Ark of the Covenant," says Wood, a member and former vice president of the evangelical Near East Archaeological Society.
Publications
- Iraq and the Bible by Bryant G. Wood
- The walls of Jericho by Bryant G. Wood. Creation 21(2):36–40. March 1999
- Debunking "The Exodus Decoded" Bryant G. Wood, Ph.D. Associates for Biblical Research. September 20, 2006.
References
- Bryant G. Wood by Wikipedia
- Biblical Archaeology's Dusty Little Secret by Christianity Today Magazine
- Biography by ZoomInfo.
Related links
- Is Bryant Wood's chronology of Jericho valid? The Biblical Chronologist Volume 2, Number 3.
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