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Empty fields and the romance of the Holy Land: A response to Marianne Sawicki's "archaeology" of Judaism, gender, and class MIRIAM PESKOWITZ Introduction Marianne Sawicki's "Archaeology as a space technology: Digging for gender and class in holy land" (1994) begins by announcing a certain dis-ease with the messiness of contemporary academic thought; the article commences with a scene in which the student of religions is "swamped" by a "discipli- nary meltdown". A generalized "you" can no longer "tell the humanists from the scientists" (1994: 319). Into this frame of anxiousness about recent challenges within the humanities, the author introduces the example of the relation of scholars of early Judaism and Christian "origins" to the data of archaeological excavation reports. Sawicki claims, and I would agree, that these scholars have been too trusting in their belief that archaeological ex- cavation reports would "provide simple, straightforward data". She intends her article to radically throw such trust into question. When asked to respond to this article, I did so expecting to find a col- league in the study of women, gender, men, and everyday life in Roman Palestine, especially one that promised partnership in challenging epistemo- logical and interpretive practices, and
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1997
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