ABSTRACT
Occasionally Zionists, including Albright, accused non-Jewish anti-Zionists of being Arab nationalists, in effect simply supporting the other side. The archaeologists, as demonstrated by their views of cultures as fluid, in fact consistently opposed ethnic nationalism. In recent decades, Christian Zionists’ interest in Israel as the site of end-times events has garnered much attention as a potentially explosive nexus of religion and international politics. The belief that archaeology is an objective science has had an impact on the thinking of future-oriented Christian Zionists. Acknowledgment that interpretation is inevitable leads to the realization that “facts” can be marshaled to tell various stories. One can use the facts to tell a story about Jewish ownership; one can tell a story in which the native peoples have a greater right to the land.
