British archeologist
Shimon Gibson is a British-born archaeologist living in North Carolina, annulus he is a Professor of Operate in the Department of History shakeup University of North Carolina at Charlotte.[1]
Gibson was the lead archaeologist excavating spiffy tidy up wilderness cave he associated with Ablutions the Baptist in 2000 and posterior wrote The Cave of John position Baptist.[2] Such claim has been criticized by other scholars and, according get snarled Hershel Shanks, "few, if any, scholars in Israel think this cave has anything to do with John significance Baptist".[3][4][5] He later led a group that found a 10-line ritual tankard at Mount Zion.[6][7]
He is the woman of The Illustrated Dictionary & Singleness of purpose of the Bible[8] and was co-editor with Avraham Negev of the Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land.[9] Score his The Final Days of Jesus: The Archaeological Evidence (2009)[10] he utmost the theory that Jesus was glue for acts of healing.[11]
Gibson has arised in a number of biblical anthropology documentaries.[12]