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The typology he built at Tell Beit Mirsim cost him his certainty decades later
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The typology he built at Tell Beit Mirsim cost him his certainty decades later
In this episode, we follow William Foxwell Albright’s career from his arrival at Johns Hopkins to his directorship at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem and the development of a pottery typology. The episode traces how fieldwork at Tell Beit Mirsim became a method for dating the biblical past and asks whether scientific certainty can survive its own tools.
Person: William Foxwell Albright
Date: 1922-1936 (directorship at American School of Oriental Research)
Location: Tell Beit Mirsim
Topic: pottery typology and biblical archaeology
Event: creation of a classification system for dating pottery
- Born in 1891 in Coquimbo, Chile, Albright trained at Johns Hopkins and earned his doctorate in 1916 before moving into Near Eastern archaeology.
- He directed excavations at Tell el-Fûl and repeatedly at Tell Beit Mirsim in 1926, 1928, 1930, and 1932, using the site as his laboratory.
- At Beit Mirsim he catalogued pottery by layer, shape, fabric and firing to produce a typology that could date shards to within decades.
- Albright used that typology to argue that elements of the Pentateuch reflected real second‑millennium BCE social patterns rather than late legendary fabrication.
- Decades later, one of his students reassessed the corpus and argued that Albright’s central theses had been refuted by the archaeological methods he pioneered.
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