Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 184
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅛
978-1-5381-3622-5 • Hardback • January 2023 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
978-1-5381-3623-2 • eBook • January 2023 • $36.00 • (£30.00)
Richard A. Freund was the Bertram and Gladys Chair of Jewish Studies at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA. He was a field archaeologist and historian of Judaism who together with geoscientists from around the world had developed a new method for working on sites with particular social, political, and religious sensitivities where traditional archaeological techniques cannot easily be used.
His work has been featured in the New York Times, Time, Reader’s Digest, Newsweek, and Archaeology and has been featured on the BBC, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and Fox News. Some of the projects he has worked on have been chronicled in 20 television documentaries from National Geographic, CNN, BBC, Discovery, History Channel and PBS.
Preface
Chapter 1: The Archaeology of Atlantis: Searching for the Atlantis Civilization 2010-2022
Chapter 2: Searching for Atlantis in 2016
Chapter 3: The Dead Sea Scrolls Again
Chapter 4: The Archaeology of Jewish Resistance in Antiquity to the Modern Period
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
[Freund] provides a compelling account of how new interpretations of archaeological findings, even when limited in quantity, can lead historians to a novel account of their subject matter. From this perspective, the author offers readers an engaging text providing new interpretations of archaeological remains. Recommended.
— Choice Reviews
With his unique didactic ability, intellectual daring and solid scholarship, Freund takes us on a magical journey through time, from the heights of mythical Atlantis to the depths of the Holocaust. One may agree or disagree with some of his interpretations, but one cannot remain indifferent to his challenge.
— Adolfo D. Roitman, PhD, Lizbeth and George Krupp Curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Head of the Shrine of the Book, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Richard Freund has demonstrated persuasively not only and immediate importance of non-invasive archeological techniques but its potential for our understanding of the past. His work is a cornerstone of the new archeology of genocide and adds significantly to our exploration of the sites of destruction. This book is a welcome companion piece to his earlier work Digging through History but stands alone as an exploration of the search for Atlantis, the significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls and how our understanding of the past can transform the future. Naturally, I turned immediately of his discoveries of what lays beneath the ground in the killing fields and death camps of the Holocaust, sites I have read about and seen, and whose testimonies from survivors I have heard only to be impressed once again but what can be seen by these new non-invasive techniques. My response to this work is to cheer his digging through history, not only again, but again and again.
— Michael Berenbaum, Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute, Los Angeles, CA