Ugarit and the Old Testament

I have recently finished a book called Ugarit and the Old Testament by Peter Craigie. He tells the story of the discovery and translation of thousands of tablets of a culture contemporary with much of the early Old testament. What is so important about this archaeological discovery? The texts they have unearthed at Ugarit are [...]

How Archaeology Helps Us Understand Scripture

Archaeology plays a major role in how we understand the Bible. It is more than Indiana Jones style trips to far away lands in search of lost treasures or the holy grail. In a practical way, archaeology illuminates scripture as we come to understand the culture and language of the time in more precise ways. [...]

The History of Samaritan-Jewish Enmity

In the New Testament there are several stories that give us a taste for the distaste of Jews for Samaritans in the first century. The two most prominent passages are in John 4 and John 8:48. In John 4, Jesus makes his way to Galilee by way of Samaria. In the city of Sychar he [...]

Bar Kochba Revolt Site Uncovered

Archaeologists have recently discovered the site of the Bar Kochba Revolt against the Romans in 132. See here for the full story.

One More Jesus’ Tomb link - Hypotyposeis

http://www.hypotyposeis.org/weblog/This post by Stephen Carlson has some information on the statistical likelihood that it is genuine. This is the best done statistical analysis I have seen. I think the odds are pretty telling. This will be my last post having anything to do with this ridiculous documentary. There are people in the pews reading about [...]

Prediction Concerning the "Jesus Tomb"

While numerous additional articles even from non-Christian sources (including the Washington post and Scientific American) continue to debunk the theory that the tomb and bones of Jesus have been discovered (see here and previous post for links), I am going to go out on a limb and predict that this “documentary” is going to win [...]

Tomb of Jesus son of Joseph - links

I am sure you have all heard the hype by now about the tomb that was found 27 years ago with ossuaries in it that have several biblical names in one family tomb. The Discovery channel and James Cameron have come together to try to sound authoritative in making this out to be the actual [...]

The Gospel is Good for You

In S.I. McMillen’s book None of These Diseases he makes the claim that the laws of God were more than just regulation but that they had tremendous health benefits looking back on them with what we know about medicine and health today. He attempts to make a link between the diseases of Egypt as listed [...]

Biblical Archaeology Review

Here is a link to the latest in biblical archaeology. There is also a story on the new find at Stonehenge