LaBianca to Speak at Asheville Adventist Forum

Senior research professor addresses biblical archaeology and conflict

An anthropological archeologist at Andrews University, Oystein LaBianca will speak for the online Asheville Adventist Forum about biblical archaeology and the Israel-Palestine conflict.

The Jan. 27 presentation will provide a “post-colonial perspective on the endeavor to prove the Book by means of the spade,” LaBianca says.

LaBianca is a National Geographic Explorer, anthropology professor, and senior director of the Hisban Cultural Heritage Project, a community archaeology project centered at Tall Hisban in the country of Jordan. LaBianca was born in Kristiansand, Norway, and immigrated to the United States as a teenager with his family. In 1971, he earned a bachelor’s degree in behavioral sciences with an emphasis in anthropology from Andrews University in Michigan.

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