Biblical Archaeology

Background

David Rohl

Abraham

• Sacrifice of Isaac

Joseph

• Coat of many colors

• Joseph's administrative programs

• The 7 year famine

• Pharaoh gains control of Egypt

• Joseph's home in Goshen

• Joseph's tomb and removal of the coffin

• Statue of Joseph

Moses

• Birth

• Moses' Military campaign against Ethiopians

• Goshen - Raamses

• Israel's sojourn in Egypt

• The slaughter of male infants

• 10th plague

• That Egypt was weakened by the 10 plagues

Joshua

• Conquest of Jericho - the walls fall

• Battles

Saul

• Saul Identified

• Saul's name

• Political situation in Canaan

• Saul's defeat at Gilboa

• Abner & Ishbaal after Saul's fall

David

• Captures Jerusalem

• Egypt during the rise of the kingdom

• The Hebrews

• David's rise to power after Saul's fall

Solomon

• Marriage to Pharaoh's daughter - builds her a palace in Jerusalem

• Massive building projects

• The Millo

Kings of Israel

• Rehoboam oppresses the people and the kingdom is split

Shishak-Shoshenk

• Shishak

• Shoshenk

• Shishak is not Shoshenk

• Shishak = Ramesses II

Passages concerning Abraham

Sacrifice of Isaac

David Rohl mentions one bit of archaeological evidence from the time of Abraham.