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The Oberlin Near East Study Collection in Context
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Hirsch, Julian
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Year and Degree
2020, BA, Oberlin College, Archeological Studies.
Abstract
Housed in Oberlin College’s Religion department, the Oberlin Near East Study Collection encompasses a wide variety of archaeological material from the Southern Levant. Its roughly 650 artifacts encompass a vast time span from the Epipaleolithic to the Modern Period with most objects coming from the Iron Age. As a teaching collection, the objects were used to vivify Biblical texts for generations of students in Oberlin’s School of Theology and later in the College’s department of Religion. Starting in the 1980s, the collection began to receive only limited use with its contents being largely forgotten. This thesis utilizes the collection's artifacts, archival documentation, and secondary sources to reconstruct the history of how the collection was assembled and how it was used to teach at Oberlin College. By focusing on these themes, the collection can be used as a proxy to better understand a chapter in the field of Biblical Archaeology as well as the wide variety of collecting strategies employed by Biblical Archaeologists.
Committee
Cynthia R. Chapman (Advisor)
Amy Vlassia Margaris (Advisor)
Pages
215 p.
Subject Headings
Archaeology
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Biblical Studies
;
Museum Studies
;
Religion
Keywords
Oberlin College
;
ONESC
;
Herbert G May
;
Levant
;
Harry Thomas Frank
;
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Hirsch, J. (2020).
The Oberlin Near East Study Collection in Context
[Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1590254692197989
APA Style (7th edition)
Hirsch, Julian .
The Oberlin Near East Study Collection in Context.
2020. Oberlin College, Undergraduate thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1590254692197989.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Hirsch, Julian . "The Oberlin Near East Study Collection in Context." Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1590254692197989
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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