Shimon Gibson

Shimon Gibson is a British-born archaeologist living in North Carolina, where he is a Professor of Practice in the Department of History at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.^[1]

Shimon Gibson is an archaeologist and a Professor of practice in the History department at University on North Carolina, Charlotte.

Life

Gibson was the lead archaeologist excavating a wilderness cave he associated with John the Baptist in 2000 and later wrote The Cave of John the Baptist.^[2] Such claim has been criticized by other scholars and, according to Hershel Shanks, "few, if any, scholars in Israel think this cave has anything to do with John the Baptist".^[3][4][5] He later led a team that found a 10-line ritual cup at Mount Zion.^[6][7]

He is the editor of The Illustrated Dictionary & Concordance of the Bible^[8] and was co-editor with Avraham Negev of the Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land.^[9] In his The Final Days of Jesus: The Archaeological Evidence (2009)^[10] he advanced the theory that Jesus was killed for acts of healing.^[11]

Gibson has appeared in a number of biblical archaeology documentaries.^[12]

References

1. "Dr. Shimon Gibson | Department of History | UNC Charlotte". history.uncc.edu. University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
2. "The Cave of John the Baptist", Biblical Archaeology Society
3. Shanks, Hershel (24 August 2015). "John the Baptist's Cave? The evidence is thin". The BAS Library. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
4. McIntosh, Kenneth (September 2005). The Controversial World of Biblical Archaeology: Tomb Raiders, Fakes, and Scholars. Mason Crest Publishers. ISBN 978-1-59084-983-5.
5. Zias, Joe. "John the Baptist or Lazarus, the patron saint of leprosy?". Revue Biblique.
6. Bible-Era Mystery Vessel Found -- Code Stumps Experts
7. Shimon Gibson - Director
8. Archeologists: Shimon Gibson
9. Negev, Avraham; Gibson, Shimon, eds. (2001). Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land. New York and London: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-1316-1. Retrieved 26 July 2021. (Snippet view).
10. Shimon Gibson from HarperCollins Publishers (HarperOne, 2009)
11. Why Was Jesus Killed? Shimon Gibson’s Take Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
12. IMDB Shimon Gibson