Steven Collins
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Reassessing the Term hakikkar in Nehemiah as Bearing on the Location of the Cities of the Plain
$2.50Reassessing the Term hakikkar in Nehemiah as Bearing on the Location of the Cities of the Plain
by Steven Collins PhD
In this paper I demonstrate that in no instance in the OT does kikkar refer to a geographical-topographical feature other than the southern Jordan Valley, north of the Dead Sea, and areas contiguous with it.
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Rethinking the Location of Zoar
$2.50Rethinking the Location of Zoar
by Steven Collins PhD
Zoar is typically located near the southern tip of the Dead Sea. However, a careful analysis of key biblical passages signals that it must be outside the territories of Moab and Edom, which makes the southern Dead Sea location questionable. Zoar is designated as the southern boundary of the Reuben tribal allotment, and, therefore, should be placed somewhere near the Arnon Gorge, north of the Moabite Kingdom boundary.
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Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project Field Manual
$12.00Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project Field Manual
by Steven Collins, with Carroll Kobs & Phillip J Silvia
Updated for Season Ten, the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project Field Manual is designed to provide current and candidate supervisors with the latest information about the excavation and data collection protocols and methodologies employed at the site. Every volunteer member of the TeHEP excavation team, along with anyone interested in this exciting excavation project or archaeology in general, is encouraged to read it.
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Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project Volunteer Manual
$9.00Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project Volunteer Manual
by Steven Collins, with Carroll Kobs & Phillip J Silvia
Updated for Season Ten (2015), the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project Volunteer Manual is designed to provide current and potential volunteers with the latest information about the excavation project, preparing to travel to Jordan as a member of the team, and what to expect when you get there. Every volunteer member of the TeHEP excavation team, along with anyone interested in this exciting excavation project or archaeology in general, is encouraged to read it.
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Tall el-Hammam Is Sodom: Billington’s Heshbon Identification Suffers from Numerous Fatal Flaws
$2.50Tall el-Hammam Is Sodom: Billington’s Heshbon Identification Suffers from Numerous Fatal Flaws
by Steven Collins PhD
In this article, S. Collins responds to an article by C.E. Billington published in the Spring 2012 issue of Artifax magazine titled “Tall el-Hammam is Not Sodom.” Billington rejects Collins’ identification of Tall el-Hammam as Sodom because the date of its destruction is too late (between 1750 and 1650 BCE) to conform to Billington’s early placement of Abr(ah)am, ca. 2166-1991 BCE. He also attempts to support a more southern location for Sodom via textual geography. Finally, Billington suggests that Tall el- Hammam is perhaps a ‘western’ Heshbon. Collins refutes these ideas as categorically untenable.
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Tall el-Hammam Is Still Sodom: Critical Data-Sets Cast Serious Doubt on E.H. Merrill’s Chronological Analysis
$2.50Tall el-Hammam Is Still Sodom: Critical Data-Sets Cast Serious Doubt on E.H. Merrill’s Chronological Analysis
by Steven Collins PhD
In this article, S. Collins responds to an article by E.H. Merrill published in the Autumn 2012 issue of Artifax magazine titled Texts, Talls, and Old Testament Chronology: Tall el-Hammam as a Case Study.” Merrill rejects Collins identification of Tall el-Hammam as Sodom because the date of its destruction is too late (between 1750 and 1650 BCE) to conform to Merrill s early placement of Abr(ah)am, ca. 2166- 1991 BCE. While Merrill takes a literal, base-10, arithmetic approach to the patriarchal numbers in Gene- sis, Collins suggests that every available line of evidence from ANE archaeology, history, culture, litera- ture, climatology, and socio-economics demonstrates that the patriarchs fit best in the period following 1800 BCE, which also conforms to the terminal MB2 destruction of Hammam/Sodom.
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Terms of Distruction of the Cities of the Plain
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The Architecture of Sodom
$2.50The Architecture of Sodom
by Steven Collins PhD
If Sodom existed, then was destroyed, during the Middle Bronze Age, then something of its architecture can be known by comparing statements from the text with known standard features of typical MBA cities.
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The Bible, History, and Objectivity
$2.50The Bible, History, and Objectivity
by Steven Collins PhD
God’s representation of reality, the Bible, has been given for the purpose of allowing us to see what mere human observers cannot: the hand of God in the whirlwind.
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