Talk:William F. Albright

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Exanpanded article, placed Albright in context of his times, gave overview of current standing and legacy. The original article was quite good, but I felt it bneeded further work in this direction.PiCo 09:26, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

just some of the reasons for tagging article with "clean up" and "sources" templates earlier

"cleanup" notation because (perhaps inter alia) article lists 2 dates of death with no explanation. did he die on the international date line?

"sources" notation because (perhaps inter alia)

• lead paragraph includes "From the early twentieth century until his death, he was the dean of biblical archaeologists and the universally acknowledged founder of the Biblical archaeology movement." no citation.
• 1st paragraph has one citation. is it intended to cover entire paragraph?. reference provided sends one to http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/a.htm with a paragraph on albright. howevever, that paragraph fails to support language on (a) situs of his birth (in chile); (b) his marriage; (c) his offspring; and (d) his retirement date.--71.183.238.134 (talk) 03:17, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Palestine and the Holy Land!

Why does "Holy Land!" have an exclamation mark after it? And is "Palestine and the Holy Land" a proper term for the area?--23.119.205.88 (talk) 14:27, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

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Add a name to the list? of ('examples of') his other students?

The first sentence of the last paragraph of the Historical research and hypotheses section says:

Other students such as Joseph Fitzmyer, Frank Moore Cross, Raymond E. Brown, and David Noel Freedman, became international leaders in the study of the Bible and the ancient Near East, including Northwest Semitic epigraphy and paleography.

There may be a good reason why Seymour Gitin is not included in that list (after "such as") in that sentence. The sentence is preceded by some mention (in the previous paragraph) of

• "Albright's student George Ernest Wright"

and

• "the first generation of world-class Israeli archaeologists".

Perhaps Gitin was part of that "first generation", and "Other students" is intended to be talking about (e.g.) the second "generation"? Or maybe Gitin is not considered to be one of Albright's "students"?

Gitin is notable; the article about him (Seymour Gitin) says:

He was the director of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR) in Jerusalem from 1980 to 2014.^[2]

Any comments? Thanks. Mike Schwartz (talk) 20:38, 14 July 2023 (UTC)