Un documento inédito de Andrés Fernández Truyols sobre la arqueología bíblica

The aim of this paper is to analyze an unpublished letter written by the biblical scholar Andrés Fernández Truyols in 1946. This letter contains a brief summary of the excavations carried out at Teleilat el-Ghassul, Lachish, Jericho, Ai, Megiddo and Jerusalem. Moreover, Fernández Truyols offered a definition of Biblical archaeology: (1) it was an auxiliary science of biblical studies that lacked an autonomous entity; (2) its main function was to confirm the historical-religious veracity of the Bible; (3) It was a new discipline, so any possible discrepancy between archeology and the Bible had to be attributed to its poor development. Ultimately, the letter offered a radically conservative and apologetic definition of Biblical archeology.