" William Dever sees this " Israel " in the central highlands as a cultural and probably political entity, but an ethnic group rather than an organized state.

" William Dever sees this " Israel " in the central highlands as a cultural and probably political entity, well enough established to be perceived by the Egyptians as a possible challenge to their hegemony, but an ethnic group rather than an organised state.

* Dever, William, " What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?

* Dever, William, " Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?

William Dever agrees with the Canaanite origin of the Israelites but allows for the possibility of some immigrants from Egypt among the early hilltop settlers, leaving open the possibility of a Moses-like figure in Transjordan ca 1250-1200.

Other archaeologists in Israel, including Amnon Ben-Tor, Amihai Mazar, William Dever and Lawrence Stager, reject this theory, claiming that it is contradicted by scientific understandings of strata formulation and the general development of the region, and that the theory relies overmuch on pottery seriation, a technique for dating sites using ceramic remains, which is a relative dating technique rather than a reliable technique such as carbon dating.

These views are criticized by William G. Dever, Helga Weippert, André Lemaire and Amnon Ben-Tor.

William G. Dever states " that we now have direct Bronze and Iron Age parallels for every feature of the ' Solomonic temple ' as described in the Hebrew Bible ".

William G. Dever contrasts " official religion / state religion / book religion " of the elite with “ folk religion ” of the masses.

He declined to run for reelection in 1923 and he was succeeded to the office by William Emmett Dever.

Albright, which sought to validate the historicity of the events narrated in the Bible through the ancient texts and material remains of the Near East, has little in common with the view of history described by archaeologist William Dever.

These views are strongly criticized by William G. Dever, Helga Weippert, Amihai Mazar and Amnon Ben-Tor.

* Dever, William G. What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It ?, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 2001

Fellow Biblical archaeologist William Dever notes that " central theses have all been overturned, partly by further advances in Biblical criticism, but mostly by the continuing archaeological research of younger Americans and Israelis to whom he himself gave encouragement and momentum ...

On the other hand, there was no city of Jericho in existence at the end of the Late Bronze Age, drawing William Dever to conclude that, “ Joshua destroyed a city that wasn ’ t even there ”.

William G. Dever suggests it was located in the " northwest Arabian Peninsula, on the east shore of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea ( the " Hejaz ") " Some scholars believe it to be somewhere in or around Sudan as the Bible does not make direct mention of its location.

and Dessel, J. P. ( eds ), Confronting the Past — Archaeological and Historical Essays on Ancient Israel in Honor of William G. Dever, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2006, pp. 105 – 118.

Following the 4 March 2007 airing of The Lost Tomb of Jesus on the Discovery Channel, Ted Koppel aired a program entitled ' The Lost Tomb of Jesus-A Critical Look ', whose guests included the director Simcha Jacobovici, James Tabor ( a consultant and advisor on the docudrama ), Johnathan Reed, Professor of Religion at the University of LaVerne and co-author of ' Excavating Jesus Beneath the Stones, Behind the Text ', and William Dever, an archaeologist with 40 plus years experience in Middle Eastern archaeological digs.

The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority was created in 1952 by a special act of the Massachusetts General Court ( legislature ) upon the recommendation of Governor Dever and his Commissioner of Public Works, William F. Callahan.

* William G. Dever ( 1933 -): American biblical archaeologist, known for his contributions to the understanding of early Israel.

Cuyahoga County prosecutor William D. Mason led the State of Ohio's trial team, which included assistant prosecutors Steve Dever, Kathleen Martin, and Dean M. Boland.

Just several years earlier his cousin from Woburn, Massachusetts, William E. Dever had gained national prominence as the " Mayor who cleaned up Chicago.

Wright ( 1964-5, at the head of the Hebrew Union College expedition ), William Dever, Yigael Yadin, as well as the Andrews University.

* William G. Dever, Gezer Revisited: New Excavations of the Solomonic and Assyrian Period Defenses, The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol.

258 – 79 in Up to the Gates of Ekron: Essays on the Archaeology and History of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honor of Seymour Gitin, S. White Crawford, A. Ben-Tor, J. P. Dessel, W. G. Dever, A. Mazar, and J. Aviram, eds.

* Dever, William G., " Visiting the Real Gezer: A Reply to Israel Finkelstein ", Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University, Volume 30, Number 2, September 2003, pp. 259 – 282 ( 24 )

* Dever, William G. ( 1997 ).

The Near East in the Southwest: Essays in Honor of William G. Dever, pp. 19 – 44.

An inscription was found on the site by Aharoni mentioning a ' House of Yahweh ', which William G. Dever suggests may have referred to the temple at Arad or the temple at Jerusalem.

When Mayor Dever heard of the banquet he summoned Hughes for an explanation of why he had been dishonouring the police department by consorting with these felons and fixers.

Many see Calvinism as growing in acceptance, and some prominent Reformed Baptists, such as Albert Mohler and Mark Dever, have been pushing for the Southern Baptist Convention to adopt a more Calvinistic orientation.

The lead designer was Joe Dever.

* 1903 – Paul A. Dever, 58th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1958 )

In discussing the role of his discipline in interpreting the biblical record, Dever has pointed to multiple histories within the Bible, including the history of theology ( the relationship between God and believers ), political history ( usually the account of " Great Men "), narrative history ( the chronology of events ), intellectual history ( ideas and their development, context and evolution ), socio-cultural history ( institutions, including their social underpinnings in family, clan, tribe and social class and the state ), cultural history ( overall cultural evolution, demography, socio-economic and political structure and ethnicity ), technological history ( the techniques by which humans adapt to, exploit and make use of the resources of their environment ), natural history ( how humans discover and adapt to the ecological facts of their natural environment ), and material history ( artefacts as correlates of changes in human behaviour ).

With the commencement of the 2007-2008 school year, the new performing arts center, the Bulger Center ( formerly Dever Auditorium ), will be available for use by BC High's numerous performing groups, as well as for small school functions.

In the episode " Freaky Phoebe ", Paige takes on official Whitelighter duties and gains her first charge in a witch named Mitchell Haines ( Seamus Dever ) who has the power of superhuman speed.

William Emmett Dever ( March 13, 1862 – September 3, 1929 ) served as the Democratic mayor of Chicago, Illinois, U. S. from 1923 to 1927.

Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

G. E. Marindin, William Smith, LLD, William Wayte )

* William G. Hyland.

William F. Miller was interim CEO until September of that year, when Whitney G. Lynn became interim president and CEO and then continued to have a succession of CEOs including Dale Fuller and Tod Nielsen.

* Richard J. Coggins, 1 and 2 Chronicles in Dunn, James D. G., Rogerson, John William ( eds ), " Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible " ( Eerdmans, 2003 )

Others noted that almost all traits claimed to be uniquely cyberpunk could in fact be found in older writers ' works — often citing J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Stanisław Lem, Samuel R. Delany, and even William S. Burroughs.

In view of the success of her novels, particularly Jane Eyre, Charlotte was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes.

Wendell C. Beane and William G. Doty.

* 1919 William G. Willcox

* Boltz, William G. Lao tzu Tao te ching.

The portion of the river in the city of Detroit has been organized into the Detroit International Riverfront and the William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor.

The term ethnocentrism was coined by William G. Sumner, upon observing the tendency for people to differentiate between the in-group and others.

* 1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.

* Margin Notes by G. E. Moore on The Works of Thomas Reid ( 1849: With Notes by Sir William Hamilton )

In the railroad car the President rode with his secretary, John G. Nicolay, his assistant secretary, John Hay, the three members of his Cabinet who accompanied him, William Seward, John Usher and Montgomery Blair, several foreign officials and others.

* 1921 – U. S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.

* 1866 – William G. Conley, American politician and 18th Governor of West Virginia ( d. 1940 )

James D. G. Dunn, John William Rogerson, Eerdmans, 2003 )

It was strongly associated with G. D. H. Cole and influenced by the ideas of William Morris.

* Montgomery, William G. ( 1993 ) Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865 – 1900, Louisiana State University Press, ISBN 0-8071-1745-5

* 2005 – William G. Adams, Canadian politician ( b. 1923 )

Contributors included H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and William Butler Yeats ; the magazine became a forum for politics, literature, and the arts.

William F. Perrin, Bernd Würsig, J. G. M.