This website remains unique in biblical archaeology since its focus is upon the whole field of biblical archaeology in its quest to learn more about the culture of biblical peoples.

Objectives

The key objectives of this website are:

• To serve as a clearinghouse for helps in the study of biblical archaeology;

• To provide an on-line glossary of words and phrases in Levantine archaeology;

• To furnish a means of fostering positive attitudes about biblical archaeology; 

• To promote biblical archaeology as a discipline;

• To provide stimuli for discussion, reading, and study; 

• To address salient issues in relation to the larger sociocultural, economic, and political forces existing at the local, regional, national, and global levels; and 

• To engage in advocacy, particularly that related to biblical understanding, as we consider important.

Why This Site

Our aim is to keep you informed of advances in biblical archaeology and to provide general information about our discipline. While there are numerous archaeology websites information gaps exist because:

1. Other websites do not specialize in biblical archaeology as a holistic field.

2. Archaeologists, students, and other users find bits and pieces of technical information on some web sites and then have to integrate their research off-line.

3. Most websites containing biblical archaeology information limit their focus to pre-Herodian times.

4. Some websites simply seek to recruit volunteers as excavation workers.

Acknowledgements

High Top Media acknowledges, commends, and thanks and all those contributing to the creation of this website.

Gregory D. Kurzawa completed the first prototype for the site as an undergraduate class project at Ambassador University in 1996.

Brenda Germano, Marianne M. Meyer and Elizabeth Parish then developed a working module for the site, based upon instructional systems design, as part of their graduate work in educational technology at George Washington University.

Site assessment was by Sarah B. Baker, Vernon P. Germano, H. Neil Matkin, and J. Peter McNair.

Following the evaluation process and assessment Brenda, Vernon, and Michael Germano produced the final site design. The first publishing of the website for public use was in 1997.

Special thanks goes to Brenda E. Germano, Danielle Germano, Vernon P. Germano, Jerome Feltracco, Lara L. Feltracco, Rodrigo Silva, H. Neil Matkin, Miquelyn I. McNair, J. Peter McNair, Marianne M. Meyer, Elizabeth Parish, and Carrie Swagerty for their continued encouragement and contributions.

We want to acknowledge Lawrence A. Thompson, LTA-Architecture, for his architectural contribution to the Cenacle Research Project thus permitting us to have illustrations and new schematics for the small first-century synagogue produced in AutoCAD.

Moreover, we want to thank our many other friends and colleagues for their assistance and support, if not their indulgence, in our quest to promote biblical archaeology.

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