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What drew biblical scholar and archaeologist Carol Meyers into the world of archaeology? Read her essay in Women and the Society of Biblical Literature edited by Nicole L. Tilford. buff.ly/Mt1E0Ld #TalkAboutHumanities #TalkAboutBiblicalStudies

“By the beginning of my junior year, I was also hooked on archaeology. That too was accidental and somewhat serendipitous. It began as a lark in the summer after my sophomore year. I was seeking an adventurous summer-vacation experience, and I heard that a Harvard Peabody Museum expedition needed students for excavations at a prehistoric site in Wyoming. I joined the dig. It turned out to be hard, tedious work, much less adventurous than I had imagined. Yet it was nonetheless exciting—intellectually
exciting to learn about people who lived thousands of years ago by painstakingly uncovering and analyzing the material remains of their daily lives.”

Carol Meyers,
“Accidental Biblical Scholar”

#TalkaboutBiblicalStudies

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