The Possible Discovery of Elisha’s House

The discovery took place sometime in 2013 after 16 years of excavations: The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) reported the discovery of a building that “might have been the house of Elisha the prophet” at Tel Rehov in Israel. The sixteen-year-long excavations at Tel Rehov, directed by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeologist Amihai Mazar, investigate

Book Update

Good news, we have created a BTV for our latest work. You can view it by clicking the title- It All Begins at Babel. The BTV is not flashy, but it gets the message across. Since we are not good at self-promotion, we hope you will share the link with your family and friends, schools,

This Is Just Ridiculous

We are watching some Craig A Evans interviews and lectures, and in one particular lecture, he makes a point which we paraphrased in another article on our sister website: It is interesting to note that one unbelieving professor told Dr. Craig that the latter relied too much on facts and not enough on imagination. This

The Gospel of Thomas

This is often called a Christian document, but it is far from being Christian Our papyrus is a unique artifact of an early Christian text,” Lajos Berkes, papyrologist and co-author of the paper, told Bible History Daily. “It contains the earliest copy of the text in any language; thus, this fragment is the closest we

The Table of Nations- Genesis

What is a biblical family tree if not a family tree? Genesis 10 famously presents the so-called “Table of Nations,” a long list of the descendants of Noah, together with the different lands where they resided. Many read this list as a simple family tree, but important questions remain, namely what was the purpose of

Roman Crucifixion

It is an ancient practice and one that has been proven that the Romans used this method of execution. However, as Bart Ehrman has stated, the Romans did not invent this execution style. They probably perfected it: The crucifixion was not invented by the Romans, but they used it a lot. It was thought of

More Newsletter News

The following excerpts are from the Patterns of Evidence newsletter: #1. Moses Making Headlines TIM MAHONEY: Sorry, Michael, for people who don’t know what’s happening here, what has been uncovered as it were, is that these inscriptions that were found in the mines are the earliest form of the alphabet. And so what is the

Our Latest Book

As you know, we do not have millions, not even thousands, of readers, thus we publish certain content in books. We have added new chapters to this work that have not appeared on this website, so the book should be compelling reading to those who have consistently read our work here. Please spread the word,

Archaeologists, The Bible, & Dogs

Since we have shown that archaeologists have dug up canine remains in tombs and graves, it is time to broaden the topic to include what archaeologists think the Bible says about dogs. There are two good archaeological articles on this topic in the BAS Bible History Daily newsletter, and we will link to those articles

Ancient Animal Lovers- 2

As we thought in the previous article, animal burials were not limited to one, the modern world, and two, the ancient Egyptians. While online ratings are new, concern for the animal afterlife is not a modern fad. “People were doing this thousands and thousands of years ago… it’s a long, long standing practice,” says archaeologist