Alan Kaiser: 4 books
Archaeology, Sexism, and Scandal
The Long-Suppressed Story of One Woman's Discoveries and the Man Who Stole Credit for Them
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
The 1931 excavation season at Olynthus, Greece, ushered a sea change in how archaeologists study material culture—and was the nexus of one of the most egregious (and underreported) cases of plagiarism in the history of classical archaeology. Alan Kaiser draws on the private scrapbook that budding...
Roman Urban Street Networks
Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently. Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists had in streets was in tracing the origins and development of the orthogonal layout used in Roman colonial cities. Roman Urban Street Networks is the...
Continuity and Discontinuity (Essays in Honor of S. Lewis Johnson, Jr.)
Perspectives on the Relationship Between the Old and New Testaments
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1988
Evangelicals agree that the Bible is God's inerrant word. But we sometimes differ on how to relate the messages of the Old and New Testaments. Without a basic understanding of this crucial matter, it is difficult to know how to use the Testaments to formulate either doctrine or practice.
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Doing Recent History
On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and...