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 | Feb 23, 2017 | Archaeology and the Old Testament, Genesis and Primeval History, science
Have humans always believed that there was only one God, or were humans originally polytheists? Where did the idea of one supreme God originate? There are really only two options: Monotheism (mono– “one” theos – “god”) was original to humans from the very beginning....
