Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology
A highly regarded forum on the archaeology, history, languages and literature of the Biblical world.
About
In 1907, in memory of her father Leopold, Miss Constance Schweich endowed a fund ‘devoted to the furtherance of research in the archaeology, art, history, languages and literature of Ancient Civilisation, with reference to Biblical Study’. One fruit of the fund was the foundation of this lecture series. The lectures were first delivered in 1908.
The three papers given by each lecturer are published together in book form. The Schweich Lectures are a highly regarded forum on Biblical Archaeology: the popularity of these volumes has remained undiminished over the years and there have been many reprintings.
Volumes
2025. Assyria in the 7th century BC
by Karen Radner
2022. Ancient Synagogues in Palestine: A Re-evaluation Nearly a Century After Sukenik's Schweich Lectures
by Jodi Magness
9780197267653 (2024) hbk
🔓 available open access
2019. The Dead Sea Scrolls as Archaeological Artefacts
by George J. Brooke
Not published; event information
2016. Re-excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology
by Kay Prag
9780197266427 (2018) hbk
2013. Levantine Epigraphy and History in the Achaemenid Period (539-332 BCE)
by André Lemaire
9780197265895 (2014) hbk
2010. Religion, Language and Community in the Roman Near East: Constantine to Muhammad
by Fergus Millar
9780197265574 (2013) hbk
2008. The Schweich Lectures and Biblical Archaeology
by Graham Davies
9780197264874 (2011) hbk
2007. The Ugaritic Texts and the Origins of West Semitic Literary Composition
by Dennis Pardee
9780197264928 (2012) hbk
2004. Ashkelon, Seaport of the Canaanites and the Philistines
by Lawrence Stager
Not published; event information
2001. Idols of the People: Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East
by P. R. S. Moorey
9780197262801 (2003) hbk
1998. Symbol Systems of Ancient Palestine, in the Light of Scarabs and Similar Seal-amulets
by Othmar Keel
Not published
1995. Translating the Bible: The Ethiopic Version of the Old Testament
by Michael A. Knibb
9780197261941 (1999) hbk - out of print
1992. Ancient Interpretation of Sacred Books
by Henry Chadwick
9780856725876 (2009) pdf
🔓 available open access
1989. The Bible in the Syriac Churches
by S. P. Brock
Not published
1986. The Variable Spellings of the Hebrew Bible
by James Barr
0197260683 hbk (1989) - out of print
1984. Mari and the Early Israelite Experience
by Abraham Malamat
0197260721 (1989) hbk - out of print
9780197261170 (1992) pbk
1983. Nebuchadrezzar and Babylon
by D. J. Wiseman
0197260403 (1985) hbk - out of print
9780197261002 (1991) pbk
1977. Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early Christian Egypt
by Colin H. Roberts
9780197259825 (1979) hbk
1976. Some Aspects of Hittite Religion
by O. R. Gurney
9780197259740 (1977)
1974. Mari et l’Ancien Testament
by André Parrot
Not published
1972. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
by Charles Coüasnon
9780197259382 (1974) hbk
1970. Hazor
by Yigael Yadin
9780197259252 (1972)
1967. Ethiopia and the Bible
by Edward Ullendorff
0197259049 (1968) hbk - out of print
9780197260760 (1988) pbk
1965. Mari, Ugarit, Hamath: Archaeological Contributions from Ancient Syria to the Old Testament
by Harald Ingholt
Not published
1963. Amorites and Canaanites
by Kathleen M. Kenyon
9780197258958 (1966) hbk
1961. Social Organisation of Pre-Islamic South Arabia
by A. F. L. Beeston
Not published
1959. L’Archéologie et les Manuscrits de la Mer Morte
by Roland de Vaux
0197258816 (1961) hbk - out of print
1959. Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls
by Roland de Vaux
9780197259313 (1973) hbk
1957. Une collection de Paroles de Jésus récemment découverte: L’Évangile selon Thomas
by H-C Puech
Not published
1955. Assyria and the Old Testament
by M. E. L. Mallowan
Not published
1953. Les Araméens
by A. Dupont-Sommer
Not published
1951. The Original Form of the Old New Testament
by G. D. Kilpatrick
Not published
1950. The Phoenicians
by A. M. Honeyman
Not published
1949. Les Archives de Mari dans ses Rapports avec l’Ancien Testament
by Georges Dossin
Not published
1948. From Joseph to Joshua: Biblical Traditions in the Light of Archaeology
by H. H. Rowley
9780197258576 (1950) hbk
1947. The Contribution of Demotic to the Study of Egyptian History
by S. R. K. Glanville
Not published
1946. The Text of the Epistles: A Disquisition upon the Corpus Paulinum
by G. Zuntz
9780197258606 (1953) hbk
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The 1908–1943 & 1945 Lectures, originally published by the British Academy, were reprinted in 1980 by Kraus.
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1945. Ideas of Divine Rule in the Ancient East
by C. J. Gadd
(1948) hbk - out of print
1944. Semitic Writing, from Pictograph to Alphabet
by G. R. Driver
(1948) hbk - out of print
1944. Semitic Writing, from Pictograph to Alphabet
by G. R. Driver
0197258522 (1954) hbk, revised edition - out of print
1944. Semitic Writing, from Pictograph to Alphabet: Newly Revised Edition
by G. R. Driver, edited by S. A. Hopkins
9780197259177 (1976) hbk
1943. The Poem of Job: A Literary Study with a New Translation
by William Barron Stevenson
(1947) hbk - out of print
1942. Some Hellenistic Elements in Primitive Christianity
by Wilfred L. Knox
(1944) hbk - out of print
1941. The Cairo Geniza
by Paul E. Kahle
(1947) hbk - out of print
1940. Isaiah Chapters XL–LV: Literary Criticism and History
by Sidney Smith
(1944) hbk - out of print
1939. The Hebrew Bible in Art
by Jacob Leveen
(1944) hbk - out of print
1938. The Work of the Chronicler: Its Purpose and its Date
by Adam C. Welch
(1939) hbk - out of print
1937. Early Churches in Palestine
by J. W. Crowfoot
(1941) hbk - out of print
1937. The Cuneiform Texts of Ras Shamra-Ugarit
by Claude F. A. Schaeffer
(1939) hbk - out of print
1935. The Origins of Early Semitic Ritual
by S. H. Hooke
(1938) hbk - out of print
1934. Archaeological History of Iran
by Ernst E. Herzfeld
(1935) hbk - out of print
1933. Babylonian Menologies and the Semitic Calendars
by S. Langdon
(1935) hbk - out of print
1932. Recent Developments in the Textual Criticism of the Greek Bible
by Frederic G. Kenyon
(1933) hbk - out of print
1931. Ancient Hebrew Social Life and Custom as Indicated in Law, Narrative and Metaphor
by R. H. Kennett
(1933) hbk - out of print
1930. Ancient Synagogues in Palestine and Greece
by E. L. Sukenik
(1934) hbk - out of print
1929. A Comparative Study of the Literatures of Egypt, Palestine, and Mesopotamia: Egypt’s Contribution to the Literature of the Ancient World
by T. Eric Peet
(1931) hbk - out of print
1928. The Old and New Testaments in Muslim Religious Art
by Thomas W. Arnold
0197258492 (1932) hbk - out of print
1927. The Apocalypse in Art
by Montague Rhodes
0197258549 (1931) hbk - out of print
1926. Palestine in General History
by Theodore H. Robinson, J. W. Hunkin, and F. C. Burkitt
(1929) hbk - out of print
1925. The Religion of Ancient Palestine in the Light of Archaeology
by Stanley A. Cook
(1930) hbk - out of print
1924. Kings of the Hittites
by David George Hogarth
(1926) hbk - out of print
1923. The Samaritans: Their History, Doctrines and Literature
by Moses Gaster
(1925) hbk - out of print
1922. Campaigns in Palestine from Alexander the Great
by Israel Abrahams
0197258484 (1927) hbk - out of print
1921. The Relations between Arabs and Israelites prior to the Rise of Islam
by D. S. Margoliouth
(1924) hbk - out of print
1920. The Septuagint and Jewish Worship: A Study in Origins
by H. St John Thackeray
(1921) hbk - out of print
(1923) hbk, second edition - out of print
1919. Lectures on the Apocalypse
by R. H. Charles
(1922) hbk - out of print
1918. The Hittites
by A. E. Cowley
(1920) hbk - out of print
1917. Israel’s Settlement in Canaan: The Biblical Tradition and its Historical Background
by C. F. Burney
(1918) hbk - out of print
1916. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew Tradition
by Leonard W King
(1918) pbk - out of print
(1918( hbk, second edition - out of print
1915. The Text of the Old Testament
by Édouard Naville
(1916) hbk - out of print
1914. Une Communauté Judéo-Araméenne à Éléphantine, en Égypte, aux VIe et Ve Siècles av. J.-C.
by A. van Hoonacker
(1915) hbk - out of print
1913. Jewish and Christian Apocalypses
by F. Crawford Burkitt
(1914) hbk - out of print
1912. The Relations between the Laws of Babylonia and the Laws of the Hebrew Peoples
by C. H. W. Johns
(1914) hbk - out of print
1911. The Philistines: Their History and Civilization
by R. A. Stewart Macalister
(1913) hbk - out of print
1910. The Early Poetry of Israel in its Physical and Social Origins
by George Adam Smith
0197258581 (1912) hbk - out of print
1909. The Composition of the Book of Isaiah in the Light of History and Archaeology
by Robert H. Kennett
(1910) hbk - out of print
1908. Modern Research as Illustrating the Bible
by S. R. Driver
0197258514 (1909) hbk - out of print