The talk will briefly address questions raised by the BBC2 television series 'The Bible's Buried Secrets', and examine its effectiveness and reliability as a popular introduction to current scholarship on the history of ancient Israel and Judah and its possible theological implications.

Dr Walter Houston is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Biblical Studies, and an Emeritus Fellow of Mansfield College Oxford. He spent most of his career teaching Old Testament studies to students for the Christian ministry in various places, including Luther King House in Manchester. His major publications include Purity and Monotheism: Clean and Unclean Animals in Biblical Law (1993) and Contending for Justice: Ideologies and Theologies of Social Justice in the Old Testament (revised edition 2008). Dr Houston’s latest publication is Justice - the Biblical Challenge (2010).

LECTURE AND DISCUSSION 2.00 p.m - 3.30 p.m

THE ANGLO-ISRAEL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Manchester Lecture series - Summer 2011Lecture to be given by Dr Walter Houston