by Ted Wright | Mar 7, 2020 | Archaeology and the New Testament, Archaeology and the Old Testament, Bible, Biblical Archaeology, Debates, geography, historical geography, History, Holy Land
1. Biblical Archaeology is over 100 Years Old Biblical archaeology got its start over a hundred years ago in 1890 with British archaeologist, Sir William Matthews Flinders Petrie. Petrie learned groundbreaking excavation techniques from the German archaeologist,...
by Ted Wright | Nov 14, 2019 | Anatolia, Archaeology and the New Testament, Archaeology and the Old Testament, Bible, Biblical Patriarchs, geography, historical geography, History, Hittites, Noah & the Flood, Noah and the Genesis Flood, The United Monarchy, Turkey
Geography & the Bible A key part of understanding the text of the Bible is geography. Most Bible believers today give a cursory nod to the maps located in the backs of their Bibles, but the maps are essential for properly understanding the meaning of the...
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 Wright | Aug 18, 2019 | apologetics, Archaeology & Philosophy, Archaeology and the New Testament, Archaeology and the Old Testament, Bible, History
IS FAITH THE OPPOSITE OF REASON & EVIDENCE? In his book, The Archaeology of Ancient Israel (Yale University Press, 1992), Amon Ben-Tor states the following in the introduction: [An] …intense urge to prove the Bible cannot affect the pious believer. For such a...
by Ted Wright | Aug 2, 2019 | Archaeology and the Old Testament, Canaanites, History, Holy Land, Shiloh, The Conquest, The Judges Period
In 2018 a remarkable ceramic pomegranate was discovered at Tel Shiloh in Israel in ancient Judea/Samaria. Shiloh is the location of Israel’s first semi-permanent Tabernacle in the land of Canaan after the Exodus. After the Conquest of Canaan was well under way, and...
by Ted Wright | Jul 20, 2019 | Ancient Egypt, geography, historical geography, History, Holy Land, science, Space archaeology
Featured image (NASA/JPL Caltech) In the 2012 fictional film, Prometheus, directed by Ridley Scott, archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway discover an ancient star-map while working at an archaeological site in Scotland. The map matched several others...
