The Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology are a series of lectures delivered and published under the auspices of the British Academy. The Leopold Schweich Trust Fund, set up in 1907, was a gift from Miss Constance Schweich in memory of her father. It provided for three public lectures to be delivered annually (now triennially) on subjects related to ‘the archaeology, art, history, languages and literature of Ancient Civilization with reference to Biblical Study’. The three papers given by each lecturer are published together in book form, by Oxford University Press. There have been many reprintings.
Catalogue of titles Book details are preceded by the year of delivery of the lectures. The date of publication is usually a year or two later. 1908. Modern Research as illustrating the Bible. by S.R. Driver 1909. The Composition of the Book of Isaiah in the Light of History and Archaeology. by Robert H Kennett 1910. The Early Poetry of Israel in its Physical and Social Origins. by George Adam Smith 1911. The Philistines: Their History and Civilization. by R. A. Stewart Macalister 1912. The Relations between the Laws of Babylonia and the Laws of the Hebrew Peoples. by C H W Johns 1913. Jewish and Christian Apocalypses. by F. Crawford Burkitt 1914. Une Communauté Judéo-Araméenne à Éléphantine, en Égypte, aux VIe et Ve Siècles av. J.-C. by A van Hoonacker 1915. The Text of the Old Testament. by Édouard Naville 1916. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew Tradition. by Leonard W. King 1917. Israel’s Settlement in Canaan: The Biblical Tradition and its Historical Background. by C F Burney 1918. The Hittites. by A. E. Cowley 1919. Lectures on the Apocalypse. by R. H. Charles 1920. The Septuagint and Jewish Worship: A Study in Origins. by H St John Thackeray 1921. The Relations between Arabs and Israelites prior to the Rise of Islam. by D S Margoliouth 1922. Campaigns in Palestine from Alexander the Great. by Israel Abrahams 1923. The Samaritans: Their History, Doctrines and Literature. by Moses Gaster 1924. Kings of the Hittites. by David George Hogarth 1925. The Religion of Ancient Palestine in the Light of Archaeology. by Stanley A Cook 1926. Palestine in General History. by Theodore H. Robinson, J. W. Hunkin & F.C. Burkitt 1927. The Apocalypse in Art. by Montague Rhodes James 1928. The Old and New Testaments in Muslim Religious Art. by Thomas W Arnold 1929. A Comparative Study of the Literatures of Egypt, Palestine, and Mesopotamia: Egypt’s Contribution to the Literature of the Ancient World. by T. Eric Peet 1930. Ancient Synagogues in Palestine and Greece. by E L Sukenik 1931. Ancient Hebrew Social Life and Custom as Indicated in Law, Narrative and Metaphor. by R. H. Kennett 1932. Recent Developments in the Textual Criticism of the Greek Bible. by Frederic G. Kenyon 1933. Babylonian Menologies and the Semitic Calendars. by S. Langdon 1934. Archaeological History of Iran. by Ernst E. Herzfeld 1935. The Origins of Early Semitic Ritual. by S. H. Hooke 1936. The Cuneiform Texts of Ras Shamra-Ugarit. by Claude F. A. Schaeffer 1937. Early Churches in Palestine. by John Winter Crowfoot 1938. The Work of the Chronicler: Its Purpose and its Date. by Adam C. Welch 1939. The Hebrew Bible in Art. by Jacob Leveen 1940. Isaiah Chapters XL–LV: Literary Criticism and History. by Sidney Smith 1941. The Cairo Geniza. by Paul E. Kahle 1942. Some Hellenistic Elements in Primitive Christianity. by Wilfred Knox 1943. The Poem of Job: A Literary Study with a New Translation. by William Barron Stevenson 1944. Semitic Writing, from Pictograph to Alphabet. by G. R. Driver 1945. Ideas of Divine Rule in the Ancient East. by C. J. Gadd 1946. The Text of the Epistles: A Disquisition upon the Corpus Paulinum. by G. Zuntz 1947. The Contribution of Demotic to the Study of Egyptian History. by Stephen Glanville 1948. From Joseph to Joshua: Biblical Traditions in the Light of Archaeology. by H. H. Rowley 1949. Les Archives de Mari dans ses Rapports avec l’Ancien Testament. by Georges Dossin 1950. The Phoenicians. by A. M. Honeyman 1951. The Original Form of the Old New Testament. by G. D. Kilpatrick 1953. Les Araméens. by André Dupont-Sommer 1955. Assyria and the Old Testament. by Max Mallowan 1957. Une collection de Paroles de Jésus récemment découverte: L’Évangile selon Thomas. by Henri-Charles Puech 1959. L’Archéologie et les Manuscrits de la Mer Morte. by Roland de Vaux 1961. Social Organisation of Pre-Islamic South Arabia. by Alfred Felix Landon Beeston 1963. Amorites and Canaanites. by Kathleen M. Kenyon 1965. Mari, Ugarit, Hamath: Archaeological Contributions from Ancient Syria to the Old Testament, by Harald Ingholt 1967. Ethiopia and the Bible. by Edward Ullendorff 1970. Hazor. by Yigael Yadin 1972. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. by Charles Coüasnon 1974. Mari et l'Ancien Testament. by André Parrot 1976. Some Aspects of Hittite Religion. by O.R. Gurney 1977. Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early Christian Egypt. by Colin H. Roberts 1983. Nebuchadrezzar and Babylon. by D. J. Wiseman 1984. Mari and the Early Israelite Experience. by Abraham Malamat 1986. The Variable Spellings of the Hebrew Bible. by James Barr 1989. The Bible in the Syriac Churches. by Sebastian Brock 1992. Ancient Interpretation of Sacred Books. by Henry Chadwick 1995. Translating the Bible: The Ethiopic Version of the Old Testament. by Michael A Knibb 1998. Symbol Systems of Ancient Palestine, in the light of Scarabs and Similar Seal-amulets. by Othmar Keel 2001. Idols of the People: Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East. by P.R.S. Moorey 2004. Ashkelon, Seaport of the Canaanites and the Philistines. by Lawrence Stager 2007. Ugaritic and the Beginnings of the West-Semitic Literary Tradition by Dennis G Pardee 2008. Archaeology and the Bible: A Broken Link? by Graham Davies 2010. Religion and Community in the Roman Near East: Constantine to Mahomet. by Fergus Millar 2013. Levantine Epigraphy and History in the Achaemenid Period. by André Lemaire 2016. Re-excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology. by Kay Prag 2019. The Dead Sea Scrolls as archaeological artefacts, by George J. Brooke 2022. Ancient Synagogues in Palestine: A Re-evaluation Nearly a Century After Sukenik's Schweich Lectures. by Jodi Magness 2025. Assyria in the 7th century BC. by Karen Radner
Further reading Graham Davies: The Schweich Lectures and Biblical Archaeology. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011,
External links Schweich Lectures page on British Academy website