Comments by "Michael Wright" (@michaelwright2986) on "37 Bible Characters Found Through Archaeology" video.

  1.  @BrandonHensleyEMD  I've taught undergraduate courses, though not in Classics, and you can generally assume that there is a lag between what is presented in u/g courses and the latest news from the knowledge front. This is partly inertia and time allocation (academics' careers are not dependent on their u/g courses, for the most part) and partly sensible: for a few years, the hot conversation will be "The Bronze Age Collapse: Yes or No? And if so, Why?" and it will be framed in terms of the consensus that existed before the conversation started, so you'll need to know a bit about that to understand it. I mean, if you're reading stuff that says "The Bronze Age Collapse is an illusion," it helps if you know what it was supposed to be. Also, the latest and greatest theories are not always right--I'm of an age when the most popular explanation for religion was magic mushrooms, and that didn't stand the test of time. All that said, it would also be good to have u/g courses of the form: "Current controversies in <discipline area>", if the structures are flexible enough to allow that (they weren't at the place I worked).
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  2.  @busimagen  Yes indeed, though the last time I looked, if the A, S, & J crowd weren't invaders, they do seem to have been immigrants who caused a certain disturbance to established society.
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