ABSTRACT
There is no simple answer to the question ‘What is the future of Biblical Archaeology?’ In this paper, a middle course between the radical skepticism that swept Biblical studies in the 1980s and Fundamentalism is sought to provide a way into the future. This perspective is made from one who has been deeply involved for nearly 50 years in trying to deal with the problem of relating ancient texts, especially the Hebrew Bible, to the archaeological record of the southern Levant.
