Bryant G. Wood | |
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| Born | 1936 (age 87–88) Endicott, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Syracuse University (BS) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (MS) University of Michigan (MA) University of Toronto (PhD) |
| Known for | Reassessment of Garstang's and Kenyon's Jericho datings |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Archaeology |
| Institutions | Editor of Bible and Spade |
Bryant G. Wood (born 1936) is an American biblical archaeologist and Young Earth creationist. Wood is known for arguing that the destruction of Jericho could be accorded with the biblical literalist chronology of c. 1400 BC. This date is some 150 years later than the accepted date of c. 1550 BC, first determined by Kathleen Kenyon and subsequently confirmed with radiocarbon dating.[1]
The current scholarly consensus follows the conclusion of Kenyon: Except for a small, short-lived settlement (ca. 1400 B.C.), Jericho was completely uninhabited ca. 1550-1100 B.C.