ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses attempts in the 1960s by George Mendenhall and Paul Lapp to theorize the field of biblical archaeology and reject the Albrightean stances on realia and objectivity. It considers the career of Albert Glock, who moved from his position at ASOR to live in the West Bank and create an alternative to biblical archaeology that included Palestinians and contrasts his pleading for theoretical understanding in the 1980s and 1990s to Avraham Biran’s contemporaneous popular rendition of his Dan excavations. Wright’s decisions as ASOR president after East Jerusalem, including the ASOR School, fell under Israeli control in 1967 were designed to maintain perceptions of ASOR as neutral. Meanwhile, the war’s effects on the Palestinian population outraged Lapp and several other ASOR residents. Wright, who knew Lapp would care about Arab opinion, wrote him suggestions for how ASOR could handle the situation.
