JEPD & Q- Video

Video #3 for this week. You can watch it at this link. We have numerous articles at theologyarchaeology.wordpress.com on these documents. There may be one or two on this website as well. Here is the original script for this video: Scholars love to create theories. It gives them something to do in their spare time

It Could Be an Astronomical Observatory

We have talked about Babylonian and other ancient astronomy efforts before. You can read about the accuracy of the Babylonian astronomy here. Today we will just talk about ancient astronomy in general, using Babylonia as an example. In relation to the previous article, Why is it always a temple, we do not think ancient ziggurats

Why is it always a temple

Script #3- https://youtu.be/Q1gRiOOGw5o It has become a pet peeve   In making a comment under a news article one day, we criticized the archaeologists labeling an ancient structure a temple. We got one response from a person who said that when his archaeology class had trouble categorizing an artifact, their professor just said to label

5 Discoveries

Here are 5 that made the news recently. No, we do not think one tooth indicates the diet of more than one person. But you be the judge. #1. 15,000-year-old tooth discovered in cave in Morocco — revealing surprise ancient diet The cave of Taforalt in Morocco is thought to be one of the oldest

They Never Provide Evidence

We have been reading Dr. Charles Pellegrino’s book, ‘Return to Sodom & Gomorrah’,  again, and the content is littered with certain references concerning the writing of the Bible We may not have paid much attention to it in our previous reading of the book but it seems that every chapter has multiple mentions, whether directly

Archaeology & The Bible

The Misunderstanding One of the more unfortunate situations when it comes to archaeology and the bible is that too many people enter this research field with the wrong understanding of archaeology. Over the years, we have read far too many stories about Christians who have entered this research field to prove the Bible true. This

Why there is no evidence for the Exodus

It is not like Noah’s flood One of the things you can say about this biblical event is that it is not like Noah’s flood. While the flood has countless amounts of physical evidence supporting it, the Exodus is rather sparse in this area. In his book, Ancient Israel in Sinai, Dr. Hoffmeier explained that

The Tower of Babel

Why no other ancient documentation The Bible is a historical document regardless of what some scholars may claim. One reason why those scholars disagree with that declaration is that there are no extra-biblical documents describing this construction. When you look at the biblical account and this situation logically, the reason there are no other contemporary

The Limitations of Archaeology

The first lesson When it comes to archaeology, one of the first lessons to be learned is that this is not a complete research field. Archaeology is only as good as the amount of information it can dig up. If the information is not there, then there is little archaeology or archaeologists can do. This

Sodom & Gomorrah: Why settled there?

The present-day appearance Many years ago, the Biblical Archaeology Society had a discussion forum. The purpose of this forum was to connect real professional archaeologists with regular people interested in history. This format did not work out as very few archaeologists participated. However, there were a few who did and those that did were associated