by Ted | May 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
AN INTRODUCTION The opening books of the Old Testament plunge the reader into a world of talking serpents, shepherd’s staffs turning into hissing cobras, poisonous serpents killing Israelites in the desert, and Moses making a bronze serpent and fixing it on top of a...
by Ted | Apr 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Paleoseismic Evidence of the Good Friday Earthquake in Matthew 27 Geologists working in the Dead Sea may have discovered (paleoseismic) geological evidence of the earthquake that occurred in Jerusalem on the day Christ was crucified 2,000 years ago. In 2011, a paper...
by Ted | Jun 29, 2019 | Archaeology and the Old Testament, Babylon, Bible, Digging Deeper, Genesis and Primeval History, Hammurabi, Historiography, History, Mesopotamia, Paleography, The Mythic Dimension of the Past
Overview Understanding the historical and cultural context in which the Bible was originally written is perhaps one of the most fundamental principles of a sound Biblical hermeneutic. Typically, conservative and liberal scholars have responded in one of two...
