Posted by PS on March 07, 2003 at 14:23:11:
In Reply to: Re: A Query For PS posted by kat on March 07, 2003 at 08:16:04:
There are 3 blurbs below, under the links to a couple of articles
about the less magical, capeless Dr. Strange. ;-)
Article in the Salt Lake Tribune
Blurb 1:
James F. Strange is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida. He has excavated in Israel since 1969 at Meiron in Upper Galilee, at Capernaum and at Sepphoris, which was the capital of the Lower Galilee during the first to the fifth centuries C.E. He has co-authored or edited six books on archaeology, including most recently Religious Texts and Material Contexts (2001; co-edited with Jacob Neusner). His recent contributions to scholarly volumes include "The Synagogue as Metaphor," "The Archaeology of Everyday Life at Qumran" and "The Archaeology of Religion at Capernaum, Synagogue and Church." Dr. Strange has also produced a CD-ROM entitled Abraham's Journey which features video clips of Israel, satellite maps, and interactive reconstruction of the ancient city of Megiddo from about 2000 B.C.E.
Blurb 2:
James Strange is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies. He has served both as Chairperson of Religious Studies (1990-93) and as Dean of the College of Arts and Letters (1981-89). He earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Rice University in 1959, an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School in 1964, and a PhD. in New Testament Studies from Drew University in 1970. He was Montgomery Fellow at the W.F. Abright Institute for Archaelogical Research in Jerusalem in 1970-71 and NEH fellow at the same Institute in 1980.
Dr. Strange's research interests are in Biblical Archaelogy, New Testament Studies, Christian Origins and post-Biblical Judaism. His published co-authored books include Ancient Synagogue Excavations at Khirbet Shema, Israel (1976), Excavations at Ancient Meiron, Upper Galilee, Israel (1981), and Archaeology, the Rabbis and Early Christianity (1981), and Excavations in the Ancient Synagogue of Gush Halav (1990). He also revised and edited H.T. Frank's Rediscovering the Biblical World (1987).
Dr. Stange's articles have appeared in journals such as the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, The Biblical Archeologist, The Biblical Archaelogy Review (for which he sits on the editorial board), Revue Biblique, The Israel Exploration Journal, and The Anglican Theological Review, as well as in The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, The International Standard Bible Encylopedia and the Mercer Bible Dictionary. Other articles appeared in the Anchor Dictionary of the Bible (1992). Strange has participated in field archaeology annually since 1969 and has directed the excavations at Sepphoris, Israel annually since 1983. Strange is the art and archaeology editor for the Macmillan Dictionary of Formative Judaism.
Blurb 3:
Dr. James Strange, Distinguished University Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. He is a native Texan and studied for his B.A. at Rice University in Houston. Subsequently he took the M.Div. degree at Yale Divinity School and the Ph.D. in New Testament Studies at Drew University (1970).
He has been a field archaeologist since 1969, served as Co-Director of the Meiron Excavation Project from 1971-1982, and has served as Director of USF Excavations at Sepphoris since 1983. He has also been a Montgomery Fellow at the W.F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research in Jerusalem in 1970-71 and NEH fellow at the same Institute in 1980. Dr. Strange's research interests are in Biblical Archaeology, New Testament Studies, Christian origins and post-Biblical Judaism. His published co-authored books include Ancient Synagogue Excavations at Khirbet Shema, Israel (1976), Excavations at Ancient Meiron, Upper Galilee, Israel (1981), Archaeology, the Rabbis and Early Christianity (1981), and Excavations in the Ancient Synagogue of Gush Halav (1990). He also revised and edited H.T. Frank's Rediscovering The Biblical World. Dr. Strange's articles have appeared in journals such as the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, The Biblical Archaeologist, The Biblical Archaeology Review (for which he sits on the editorial board), Revue Biblique, The Israel Exploration Journal, and The Anglican Theological Review, as well as in The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, and the Mercer Bible Dictionary. Other articles appeared in the Anchor Dictionary of the Bible (1992). Strange is also the art and archaeology editor for the Macmillan Dictionary of Formative Judaism. Dr. Strange is married to the former Carolyn Midkiff of Midland, Texas and has four children.