February 12,1998
Profit
Pace excavating for fortress
t .1!
Julie Koch
News Editor
Some professors merely brush
up on their curriculum every se
mester but Jim Pace, a professor
of religious and archaeological
studies, lives and loves what he
teaches his students.
Involved with the Karak Re
sources Project, an archaeology
team excavating an ancient for
tress called Mudaybi’ which dates
back to at least 900 B.C., Pace’s
interests lie in the study of people
and their utilisation of natural re
sources during ancient times.
Mudaybi’ is located in Moab,
an area in the modern country of
Jofdan.
Pace is currently writing work
to be published concerning his ar
chaeological findings in Jordan and
the Near East,
His work will form a chap
ter in a book tentavily titled “By
the Sweat of thy Brow.”
With a major in Latin from
Birmingham Southern College in
Alabama, a master of divinity and
a P.H.D in religious studies (with a
I’ve al
ways loved
history and
concentration in Old Testament
Studies) from Emory University,
Pace brings a variety of experi
ences and .views to Elon’s diverse
environment.
“It’s [college] one place where
you can think and question and
read and carry on a dialoque with
people and you can keep traditions
going,” Pace said.
“I like to stress that the ability
to raise creative questions and to
look for the answers is more i m -
portant than learning
things that already e x -
ist,” Pace said.
“It’spart
of my
train
t o
get away from superficial emotions
such as ‘I believe’ or ‘I think’,” he
added.
Pace has taught courses such
as the Archaeology of Pales
tine, Introduction to the Old
Testament, Biblical He
brew, and Hebrew
Prophets.
lan
guages,”
Pace. “I
have always
been concerned
with the passing
down of past
traditions...I think bibli
cal traditions are being
lost.”
Though Pace has
never taught anywhere
besides Elon, where he
has been for 25 years, he
says he enjoys the small
school atmosphere and the sup
port given to his research.
“I feel that research helps my
teaching,” said Pace.
“What I especially like is the
academic freedom as we can do
what
we want
in the
classroom,"
Pace said.
"I also like the as
sociation with other disci
plines because you can learn
from them...also the teaching at
mosphere and the ability to do the
research needed,” he added.
Both Pace and his wife Carol
are Elon faculty members while
their daughter, Melissa, is a senior
history/accounting major at Elon
and their son, Kevin, is a recent
addition to the Elon family.
Pace’s basic hobby is reading,
especially history.
“It is hard for me to distinguish
between my work and my hobby,”
Pace admits.
Pace also enjoys playing and
listening bass guitar, an interest he
readily attributes to his teenage son.
Pace spends his time with his
reading, his family,-and his re
search.
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