Within the Dusts of Time: Letters from the Field

James F. Strange was a pioneering New Testament archaeologist and Distinguished

University Professor in Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, where

he 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 the

intersection of his scholarship in Christian Origins and post-Biblical Judaism with

his deep faith in a personally knowable, loving God. They comprise a collection of

entertaining, insightful, and sometimes poignant stories about the people on his dig,

explanations of archaeological findings, and glimpses into the social workings of

modern-day Israel.