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How Has Archaeology Corroborated the Bible?

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How Has Archaeology Corroborated the Bible?

(An article by Walter C. Kaiser Jr.)


The past century or so has witnessed some of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries of the Christian era. No single discipline has contributed as much as archaeology to the interpretation and delight of reading the Bible.

However the discipline has had its embarrassing moments as well. For example in 1929 Sir Leonard Wooley declared while excavating in Mesopotamia, “I have found the flood!” Unfortunately for him and for the discipline of archaeology, there were embarrassed faces when other layers of flood sediment turned up at various strata throughout the area. Others have claimed to have found the location of the garden of Eden, the ark of the covenant and the like, but such claims must not be confused with real and legitimate discoveries throughout the ancient Near East.

The real role of archaeology is not to " prove " the Bible, for that kind of " proof " is available only in certain deductive sciences such as mathematics and logic. On the contrary the of archaeology is: (1) to supply cultural, epigraphic and artifactual materials that provide the background for accurately interpreting the Bible, (2) to anchor the events of the biblical text in the history and geography of the times, and (3) to build confidence in the revelation of God where the truths of Scripture impinge on historical events.

Over the last century or so, archaeology has strengthened the case for biblical reliability. Missing individuals, peoples, places and obscure customs, historical and political settings have been helpfully identified.

Missing Individuals:

It had been fashionable in some circles for many years to ridicule Isaiah 20:1 for its allusion to “Sargon king of Assyria.” Excavations of Nineveh had seemingly revealed all the kings of Assyria, but there was no Sargon. The Bible must have gotten it wrong. However in 1843, Paul Emile Botta found a virgin site northeast of Nineveh, later excavated by the University of Chicago with details published in the 1930s. Sargon had built his own capital there in 717 B.C. His son, however moved the capital back to Nineveh, so the site was lost as was Sargon’s name. Now Sargon is one of the best known Assyrian monarchs.

Likewise, the Bible contended that King Belshazzar was the final ruler of Babylon (Daniel 5:1,30), but until 1929 the extra-biblical evidence pointed to Nabonidus as king at the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C. This apparent conflict was solved when documents were discovered revealing that Nabonidus spent his time in Arabia, leaving affairs of the kingdom to his eldest son Belshazzar, who reigned as co-regent for a decade or so.

Discoveries of other biblical names have confirmed biblical reliability, including King Jehoiachin’s presence in Babylon, Sanballat as governor of Samaria along with some of Nehemiah’s adversaries as Tobiah the Ammonite and Geshem the Arab (Nehemiah 2:19). Other discoveries confirm well-known biblical individuals such as Balaam, David, Ahab, Jehu, Hezekiah, Menahem and others.

Missing Peoples:

Until Hugo Winckler discovered the Hittite Empire in 1906, many unbelievers doubted the Bible’s insistence that the Hittites were part of the land of Canaan (Genesis 10:15, Joshua 1:4). Now they are so well documented that a score of volumes has been necessary to build a Hittite dictionary based on the tablets left in their civilization.

Another mystery group were the Horites, descendants of Esau from Edom (Genesis 36:20, Deuteronomy 2:12,22). But in 1995, Giorgio Buccellati discovered the Horite capital city beneath the modern Syrian city of Tell Mozan.

Missing Places:

First Kings 9:28 claimed King Solomon brought back 16 tons of gold from Ophir. But where was Ophir and did it really exist? In 1956 at Tell Qasile in Israel, broken pottery was found with an inscription referring to a shipment of “gold of Ophir for Beth-Horon, thirty shekels.” Thus, Ophir was confirmed as known in the world of commerce with its trade in gold. Ophir is identified today as a port some 60 miles north of Bombay.

Another example is the disputed list of sites along the route of the exodus in Numbers 33. But Charles Krahmalkov noted three ancient Egyptian maps of the road from Arabah to the Plains of Moab, with the earliest of the three maps inscribed on the walls of Karnak in the reign of Thutmosis III (c. 1504-1450 B.C.). According to this list, the route from south to north follows precisely the way the Israelites listed in Numbers 33 with four stations especially noted: Iyyim, Dibon, Abel and Jordan.

Other Amazing Finds:

Discovered by Grenfeld in Egypt in 1920, the “John Rylands Papyrus” yielded the oldest known fragment of a New Testament manuscript. This small scrap from John’s Gospel (John 18:31-33, 37-38) was dated by papyrologists to 125 A.D. but since it was so far south into Egypt, it successfully put an end to the then-popular attempt to late-date John’s Gospel to the second century rather than to the traditional first century date of A.D. 85-90.

The Dead Sea Scrolls, found in 1948 in caves at Qumran, near the northwest end of the Dead Sea, gave us some 800 manuscripts of every book (in part or the whole) of the Old Testament except for Esther. Prior to that, the earliest Hebrew texts dated to around A.D. 1000, but the scrolls at Qumran are generally more than one thousand years older! These Hebrew texts illustrate that a thousand years of copying had provided us with an amazingly pure text, with one of the best examples being the book of Isaiah where only three words had slight modifications.

In 1990, a bone chest was discovered accidentally during work in Jerusalem’s Peace Forest. This “Caiaphas Ossuary” belonged to the high priest from A.D. 18-36 (see his cynical words in John 11:49-53). The inscription, found in two places, read: “Caiaphas” and “Joseph, son of Caiaphas.” First-century Jewish historian Josephus provided the full name, “Joseph, who is called Caiaphas of the high priesthood.”

Space precludes discussion of the many more archaeological corroborations, such as the Pontius Pilate Inscription, the Pool of Siloam excavated in 2004, and the amazing Ketef Hinnom Amulets discovered in 1979 (with inscriptions of Nehemiah 6:24-26 and Deuteronomy 7:9 perfectly matching the biblical Hebrew text—amazing since these seventh to sixth century B.C. amulets contain Old Testament texts skeptics argued could not have been written until the 400s B.C.).

Archaeology then has illuminated and corroborated the Bible in numerous ways. The interpreter finds in archaeology a good friend for understanding and substantiating Scripture.

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God makes it clear that 'All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God' (Romans 3:23), and 'there is none that doeth good, no, not one.' (Psalm 14:3) and 'but we are all as an unclean thing, and all our good works are as filthy rags'. (Isaiah 64:6)

Tell me, do you think you are a good person?

Let me ask you, how many murders do I need to commit to be called a murderer? Just one.

Have you ever told a lie? That makes you a liar.
Have you ever stolen anything? That makes you a thief.
Have you ever used God's name as a curse word? That makes you a blasphemer against the God that gave you life.
Have you ever looked at a woman with lust? Jesus said if you look at someone to lust after them, you have commit adultery in your heart.
Have you ever murdered anyone? Jesus said if you are angry with someone, you are guilty of murder in your heart.

So, God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterous murderer at heart. Now, if God is just and good and perfectly Holy, having never committed any sins, and you stand before Him as a vile and wicked sinner, what should He do with you? If He lets you go, that would make God evil, so would any judge who lets an evil man walk away without justice being served. God must punish all that is evil in order for God to remain good.

So, should God punish or reward you for breaking His laws? Obviously, God should ensure justice is served, and should punish all who have broken His laws. However, God wants to save you from His wrath, because God is also merciful and kind. God became a man, Jesus Christ, and died on a cross in your place, taking the punishment you deserved upon Himself.

The life of Christ was as important as His death. God created mankind to be His image in the physical world, and we failed by sinning. So, God became a man, who we call Jesus, so that mankind could fulfill their purpose of being the physical representation of God. However, for those who have sinned, they have earned the wage of sin (a wage is something you earn), and that is death. So, mankind deserves to die. However, Jesus Christ, the true representation of God and man, being fully God, and fully man, lived perfectly so mankind could be deemed righteous, and died to take the punishment that mankind deserved. So, mankind as a whole can now be justified before God having fulfilled their purpose as the image of God in the physical world, and also allow God's justice and wrath to be satisfied by having mankind die in Jesus Christ. 0 x any number = 0. Jesus had 0 sins, and died for the sins of the world.

If you repent (apologize and forsake your sins), and put your faith in Jesus Christ, your God and Savior, you will be saved. If not, you will face the wrath of God upon your sins. Jesus said

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for Gods wrath remains on him. (John 3:36)

Confess to God you are a sinner who deserves to justly be sent to Hell, but you believe Jesus died on a cross in your place, taking the punishment you deserved. Then, He was resurrected from the dead to conquer death, and hears your prayers and is able to forgive and save you.

Repent from sin, and put your faith in the Saviour today.



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