by Ted | Jun 29, 2023 | Digging Deeper, History, Indiana Jones, Intelligent Design, Roman history, science
The long-awaited Indiana Jones movie is finally out – Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny. I must confess that the first Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) was a part (although not the sole reason) of why I decided to become an archaeologist. Fans...
by Ted Wright | Oct 4, 2019 | Abraham, apologetics, Archaeology and the Old Testament, Babylon, Bible, Biblical Patriarchs, Debates, Digging Deeper, Genesis and Primeval History, geography, historical geography, History, Holy Land, Mesopotamia
Abraham: The Father of Faith He didn’t build any major cities. He left behind no enduring momuments of stone or marble. He didn’t inscribe any clay tablets [that we know of]. He came from the very cradle of human civilization itself, in ancient Mesopotamia,...
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 of the Old Testament is perhaps one of the most important principles of sound biblical hermeneutics. Typically, conservative and liberal scholars have responded in one of two ways in attempting to understand...
by Ted Wright | Jun 8, 2019 | anthropology, apologetics, Book of Mormon, Debates, Digging Deeper, Genesis and Primeval History, Historiography, History, Joseph Smith, science
A recent article in the journal, Nature[1] may shed additional light on the genetic ancestry of Native Americans and has big implications for the historicity of the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon, written by LDS founder Joseph Smith, presents a history of the...
by Ted Wright | May 17, 2019 | apologetics, Archaeology and the Old Testament, Bible, Debates, Digging Deeper, Epic of Gilgamesh, Genesis and Primeval History, Historiography, History, Mesopotamia, Moses Inscription, Noah & the Flood, The Mythic Dimension of the Past
An Overview For many years, skeptics of the Bible (especially The Pentateuch & Genesis) have pointed to an ancient Mesopotamian story called The Epic of Gilgamesh as proof that the Biblical writers either borrowed or stole ideas from their ancient Near Eastern...
by Ted Wright | May 8, 2019 | Archaeology and the Old Testament, Bible, Digging Deeper, History, Hittites, Paleography, The Conquest, The Judges Period, The United Monarchy
In 1906, near the bend of the Halys River located near the modern Turkish village of Boğazkale, a German professor and Assyriologist named Hugo Winckler started full scale excavations of an unknown and lost empire. Winckler decided to excavate the site because of...
