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

* Dever, William G. ( 1978 ), " Kathleen Kenyon ( 1906-1978 ): A Tribute ", BASOR 232 ( 1978 ), pp. 3 – 4.

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.

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.

* Dever, Maryanne ( 2001?

* Court-martialed Vietnam War mass-murderer William Calley sporting the guileless grin of Alfred E. Neuman, complete with the parody catchphrase ' What, My Lai?

The Pet Shop Boys, Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs have recorded " The Second Threepenny Finale " under the title " What Keeps Mankind Alive?

In The World, William Archer wrote that he had enjoyed watching the play but found it to be empty of meaning, " What can a poor critic do with a play which raises no principle, whether of art or morals, creates its own canons and conventions, and is nothing but an absolutely wilful expression of an irrepressibly witty personality?

Of course, contemporary churchmen were themselves not above engaging in such politics: it is reported that, when Archbishop Lanfranc suggested to William I that he imprison the rebellious bishop Odo of Bayeux, he exclaimed " What!

What is clear is that Colonel William Burt was dispatched to Tortola and took control of the island by no later than 13 July 1672 ( when Stapleton reported the conquest to the Council of Trade ).

The following year Crawford played the role of Amy Nelson in I Saw What You Did ( 1965 ), another William Castle vehicle.

William Shakespeare mentions Pentecost in a line from Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene V. At the ball at his home, Capulet speaks in refuting an overestimate of the time elapsed since he last danced: " What, man?

What Calhoun fails to explain, according to historian William W. Freehling, is how a compromise would be achieved in the aftermath of a minority veto, when the ubiquitous demagogues betray their constituencies and abandon the concurrent majority altogether.

Hastily dressed in an ill-fitting costume with a low neckline, she was rebuffed by the director William Wyler, who loudly commented to the assembled crew, " What do you think of these dames who show their chests and think they can get jobs?

What little of it nevertheless has come to the public attention, shows that the common conception that the kingship since the reign of William III of the Netherlands has in fact been almost fully ceremonial, is not supported by the facts.

Black poet William Waring Cuney later highlighted the black reaction to the fight in his poem " My Lord, What a Morning.

What is now known as Wheatley Heights was mapped out as real estate sub-divisions of Wyandanch ( including Wheatley Heights Estates, and Harlem Park ) by Bellerose developer, William Geiger, ( as in Geiger Lake park and pool ) in 1913 following the development of the Long Island Motor Parkway.

What is now Kendleton was a part of William E. Kendall's plantation.

Fearful Symmetry is a phrase from William Blake's poem The Tyger ( Tyger, tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry ?).

In 1905, William Randolph Hearst purchased the magazine for US $ 400, 000 ( approximately $ 11, 000, 000 in 2007 prices ) and brought in journalist Charles Edward Russell, who contributed a series of investigative articles, including " The Growth of Caste in America " ( March 1907 ), " At the Throat of the Republic " ( December 1907-March 1908 ) and " What Are You Going to Do About It?

What I experienced in that courtroom ranged from inspiration at the courage of the Kings, their lawyer-investigator William F. Pepper, and the witnesses, to amazement at the government's carefully interwoven plot to kill Dr. King.

* Strauss, William & Howe, Neil, The Fourth Turning, An American Prophecy: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous With Destiny, 1998, Broadway Books, New York

In William J. Mann's novel The Biograph Girl ( 2000 ), Mann asks the question, " What if Florence Lawrence didn't die in 1938 from eating ant poison, but is 106 and living in a nursing home in Buffalo, New York?

He missed the Battle of Inkerman ( 4 November and 5 November 1854 ), casually asking journalist William Russell ( who was returning from the conflict ) " What are they doing, what was the firing for ...?

* Sewell, Jr., William H. A rhetoric of bourgeois revolution: the Abbé Sieyes and What is the Third Estate ?.

* " What did John William Burgon really believe about the Textus Receptus and the King James Version?

Henry's Miscellaneous Writings, including a Life of Mr. Philip Henry, The Communicant's Companion, Directions for Daily Communion with God, A Method for Prayer, A Scriptural Catechism, and numerous sermons, the life of his father, tracts, and biography of eminent Christians, together with the sermon on the author's death by William Tong were edited in 1809 ; and in 1830 a new edition included sermons not previously included and Philip Henry's " What Christ is made to believers ".

* Twelfth Night, or What You Will by William Shakespeare