James F. Strange was a pioneering New Testament archaeologist and DistinguishedUniversity Professor in Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, wherehe taught from 1972 until his death in 2018. His personal letters from the field, written over the nearly five decades in which he excavated in Israel, illuminate theintersection of his scholarship in Christian Origins and post-Biblical Judaism withhis deep faith in a personally knowable, loving God.
They comprise a collection ofentertaining, insightful, and sometimes poignant stories about the people on his dig, explanations of archaeological findings, and glimpses into the social workings ofmodern-day Israel.