Bible Is History
The question of whether the Bible contains any element of historical truth has been the cause of one...
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The question of whether the Bible contains any element of historical truth has been the cause of one of the most divisive and compelling debates of this century. For modern churchmen and Jewish scholars, the text of the Book of Books is seen as an amalgam of myth, mistakes and misinterpretation, yet enshrining still a large substratum of fact.In this book, Ian Wilson looks at the latest findings of eminent Biblical archaeologists and scholars in order to gain a crucial perspective on these arguments. He catalogues the movements of the waters and plates of the earth, takes us behind the myths of ancient peoples and searches the depths of Middle Eastern tombs to reveal some astonishing possibilities. Can Noah's flood be explained by post-Ice-Age floods pouring over the dry Bosporus into a then freshwater lake, today's Black Sea? Do Abraham's remains really lie in the disputed city of Hebron? Might Sodom and Gomorrah really have existed in the geologically unstable Dead Sea region and been destroyed by the fire and brimstone of a massive earthquake? There was a Jacob in Egypt, but does the evidence show that the famous Biblical Exodus was a real event too?
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