Archaeology Institute Hopes to Restore Links to Jewish Past

Bar Ilan University announced plans on Monday to build an Institute of Biblical Archaeology which will become part of the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology.

The $50 million Institute is expected to restore the connection between the science of exploring the past and the Bible, according to The Jerusalem Post.

According to Professor Aren Maeir, director of the Institute, the primarily-observant Jewish university is trying to walk the golden path between “post-modernist revisionist nihilists” and “ideologically-driven conservatives”.

“The university has made a long-term commitment to place archaeology at the forefront of its priorities at a time when archaeology has been pushed to the wayside,” he said in a statement.