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Biblical Archaeology

In talking with people about the historical reliability of the Bible the subject of archaeology often comes up (as it should). The conventional understanding is that the archaeological evidence for the historical narratives of the Old Testament doesn't match the Biblical text.

For us who believe in the inerrancy of scripture this is distressing. How can we trust the Bible to be God's revealed word if the historical accounts are untrue? Read about how this mismatch between the Bible and archaeology came about.

New Chronology

David M. Rohl is an archaeologist who has demonstrated from the archaeological evidence that the Bible is reliable as a historical document.

More info about David Rohl's book "Pharaohs and Kings."

In this series of web pages I have extracted and summarized from David Rohl's book the evidence he presents which supports the Bible as factual, trustworthy and true. Page numbers are from "Pharaohs and Kings" by David Rohl

What motivates him? He is interested in the search for historical truth -- without the sustaining support of any particular religious belief. What triggered off his quest to find a more promising synthesis between archaeology and the historical kernel of the stories contained in the Bible? More than twenty years' personal inquiry. (pg 8)

When he looked at Kitchen's assembled jigsaw in detail he began to find pieces which simply did not fit together (other researchers were coming to similar conclusions). He also discovered a number of fundamental assumptions about the structure of Professor Kenneth Kitchen's "The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt" (TIP) which, in David's view, were not based on sound historical methods. (pg 10)

He has not exactly been dragged out of his cozy Egyptological existence kicking and screaming, but the reader should be aware that he did not originally set out to challenge our current understanding of the Old Testament narratives. This has come about simply because of the need to explore the ramifications of his TIP research. He has no religious axe to grind -- he is simply an historian in search of some historical truth. (pg 11)

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Use the links below to view the archaeological evidence for Biblical topics.