Siegfried H. Horn
Siegfried H. Horn is professor emeritus of archeology at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan.
Articles by Siegfried H. Horn
Important Archaeological Discoveries
November 1948
I. A 2,100-Year-Old Bible Manuscript
Some Palestinian Bedouins had the good fortune of making one of the most important discoveries ever made in the Old Testament field during the past…
Early Christian Tombs Near Jerusalem
May 1949
Under the sensational title "Eye-Witness Story of Crucifixion Discovered," newspapers all over the world reported under the date line of October 3, 1945, that a discovery of first historical and theological importance…
How to Use Archeological Evidence Effectively
October 1955
[This solicited article points out some timely cautions to those who speak on the subject of archeology. However, the author encourages our ministers to speak on this subject and gives a list of authentic writers that can be followed…
Ninth Extension School Held in the Far East
October 1956
For eight weeks—from March 19 to May 12—Philippine Union College at Manila was host to a field school for workers from all over the far-flung lands of the Far Eastern Division. This school was conducted by a teaching…
A Revolution in the Early Chronology of Western Asia
June 1957
It has correctly been said that chronology is the skeleton of history, and that history without chronology would be like a man without a skeleton. Although the skeleton is not the most important part of the human body, no one can exist…
Research-Theology, History, Science
February 1954
The Recent Discoveries at Jericho
SIEGFRIED H. HORN Professor of Archeology and History of Antiquity, S.D.A. Theological Seminary
The excavations of Jericho that have recently been resumed are not yet completed and will…
With the Seminary in Central Europe
December 1958
The latest Extension School of the Seminary was held during the months of July and August, 1958, on the campus of the Marienhoehe Missionary Seminary, near Darmstadt, Germany. This German school has in the past…
Viewing Archeological Treasures in European Museums
January 1958
Visits to museums can be tiresome, and there are not many people who go to museums for pleasure. Yet, cultured individuals consider it their duty to visit museums occasionally, especially if they are in cities they have never visited before.…
Biblical Archeology
January 1958
Archeology, ancient history, and the geography of the Bible lands have become important auxiliary sciences for the study of the Bible. During the Middle Ages ministers were trained almost exclusively in sacred theology and philosophy. The…
With the Seminary in Japan
July 1962
The latest extension school of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary of Andrews University was conducted during the months of February and March, 1962. It was held on the campus of Japan Missionary College,…
Andrews University Seminary Studies
June 1963
The Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, now part of Andrews University, has operated for nearly thirty years since its beginning as the Advanced Bible School. During these years much research has been…
Research: The Seventh Year of Artaxerxes I
June 1953
Seventh-Day Adventist ministers have no need of being reminded that the exact dating of Artaxerxes' 7th year is of great importance. On the correctness of this date depends a sound interpretation of the' 2300-year period, which, according…
Research: Did the Patriarchs Have Camels? Adulterating the Bible
May 1953
The Bible represents Abraham as a possessor of camels (Gen. 12:16), sending his servants to Haran with a caravan of ten camels to secure a wife for Isaac (Gen. 24:10). It describes the Egyptians as possessing camels in the time of the Exodus…
Research
December 1953
Iron in Mesopotamia
The valley of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers shows the same picture as Egypt in regard to early iron finds. Tell Chagar Bazar has provided the earliest fragment of an iron object, dated by the excavator, M.…
Research
November 1953
The book of Genesis states that iron working existed in the prediluvian period (4:22). This statement has to be accepted in faith by the believer, as in all likelihood we shall never obtain archeological evidence of the level of culture existing…
REALM OF RESEARCH: Aramaic Problem of Daniel—3
July 1950
Light From the Cave Scrolls
The recent discovery of a number of Hebrew manuscripts in a cave near Jericho in Pales tine, containing Biblical and extra-Biblical books of pre-Christian times has given us material which is highly…
REALM OF RESEARCH: Aramaic Problem of Daniel—2
June 1950
Aramaic Official Language of Persia
The domination of the Aramaic language A spread more widely and more rapidly under the Persians, and it is a recognized fact that Aramaic was used as the official language throughout the entire…
The Excavations at Biblical Heshbon 1973
January 1974
ANDREWS UNIVERSITY sponsored the third season of excavations at Tell Hesban in Jordan from June 20 to August 15, 1973, with a staff of 57 and about 120 local workmen. The American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), which has done more for…
THE REALM OF RESEARCH: The Aramaic Problem of the Book of Daniel No. 1
May 1950
The book of Daniel plays an important role in God's plan of informing His children concerning past and future events, especially those connected with the final stages of this world's history prior to Christ's second coming. However, the…
Quotations From Prof. W F. Albright's Writings
February 1973
SEPTEMBER 19, 1971, William Foxwell Albright died at the age of 80. With his passing the world of Biblical and archeological scholarship lost one of the greatest minds of recent times and probably the greatest orientalist who ever lived.…
New light on Nebuchadnezzar's madness
April 1978
In 1870 higher criticism dominated Biblical scholarship in Germany. Most scholars believed that the book of Daniel was a product of the Maccabean period of the second century B.C. But some German scholars dissented. One of these…
Archeology and the Sabbath
August 1980
In making unwarranted claims about the existence of the Sabbath and the week in ancient times, some scholars have asserted that the Hebrews and the Bible writers borrowed the Sabbath from the ancient Babylonians. This view was probably expressed…
What is new in Biblical Archeology?
April 1980
In 1952 it was my privilege to present three addresses at the Bible conference held in Takoma Park, Mary land, on "Recent Discoveries Confirm the Bible." These presentations were published in the first of the two-volume work Our Firm…
Elephantine papyri and Daniel 8:14
August 1981
Charles E. Wilbour, an American businessman and collector of Egyptian antiquities, bought nine entire rolls of papyrus and some inscribed papyrus fragments from three native women on the Nile island of Elephantine in Upper Egypt early in…
Sin and Judgment among the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians
December 1981
The ancients possessed a consciousness of sin, an awareness of what was morally right and wrong, that did not differ materially from more modern concepts. They also had some knowledge of a judgment in the hereafter, believing that after this…
Tischendorf and the New Testament
March 1982
"Before me lies a sacred life task, the struggle for the original form of the New Testament." These were the words written by Konstantin von Tischendorf to his fiancee in 1842. Tischendorf, then only 27 years of age, was an assistant professor…
The Old Testament text in antiquity
November 1987
I remember well the shock I received more than 40 years ago when as a college student I learned that the Hebrew text of the Old Testament is based on manuscripts that were produced in the ninth century A. D. and later. We had only a fragment…