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Will Varnera [This introductory article on Josephus is meant to acquaint our readers with the writings of this Jewish historian of the first century. He produced material invaluable for New Testament background. A similar article appeared in our predecessor Bible and Spade (Winter 1978).] As the Bible reader moves from Malachi to Matthew, he encounters … Continue reading “JOSEPHUS:
JEWISH WAR CORRESPONDENT”

David Livingston In our Premiere Issue of Archaeology and Biblical Research we published an article on Jericho by Dr. Bryant Wood. In the article Wood showed that there is ample archaeological evidence for a violent destruction o f Jericho at ca. 1400 BC (the Biblical date for its overthrow) contrary to what most present day … Continue reading “FALL
OF THE MOON CITY”

Bob Boyd King Jehu of the Northern Kingdom, paying tribute to Shalmanezer—on the Black Obelisk. This is the only representation of a Hebrew king ever discovered. The Assyrian Kingdom became one of Israel’ s mightiest, most brutal foes. It was a nation with the highest culture, a highly formal religion, and skilled in the crafts … Continue reading “ASSYRIAN
BRUTALITY”

Author: Henry Morris Reviewed by Ron Zuck “An unprecedented confusion is now permeating the modem world. Everything has seemingly been turned upside down and the older standards of right and wrong have been almost completely interchanged.” With these words Dr. Henry Morris begins his book The Long War Against God. This latest release is the … Continue reading “BOOK
REVIEW: THE LONG WAR AGAINST GOD”

Bob Goette Is it important to accept the Genesis account of creation as factual—as God’s revelation to man as to how He did it? Yes, it is important what one believes about the reliability of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Genesis tells us of the beginnings—how the world and man got the way they … Continue reading “WHY
TALK ABOUT CREATION?”

Milton C. Fisher Arthur Evans seated among his Minoan artifacts and restorations, as painted in 1907 by Sir William Richmond. For all his accomplishments, Heinrich Schliemann died without fulfilling his third great ambition, to excavate at Knossos, Crete. There he saw possible roots of the early Greek civilization he had unearthed at Mycenae and Tiryns … Continue reading “SIR
ARTHUR J. EVANS [1851-1941]”

Bryant G. Wooda After wandering in the wilderness of the Sinai peninsula for some 38 years, the Israelites proceeded up the east side of the Dead Sea to enter the Promised Land from the east. In the following pages we will travel with the children of Israel as they make their way from the Sinai … Continue reading “THE
ISRAELITES AND THE KING’S HIGHWAY”

Will Varnera A third-century rabbi, reflecting on the past history of his people, remarked, “Israel went into exile only after it became divided into twenty-four sects.”1 Although we cannot be sure of the exact number, there can be no doubt that at the time of the destruction of the Temple (70 AD) Judaism was divided … Continue reading “ANOTHER
LOOK AT THE PHARISEES”

Author: Bob Boyd Reviewed by Ron Zuck “A picture is worth a thousand words” and “the past is the key to the present” are two cliches which place Robert T. Boyd’s book A Pictorial Guide to Biblical Archaeology in good perspective. In the preface, Boyd says that archaeology was a dead subject to him because … Continue reading “BOOK
REVIEW: A PICTORICAL GUIDE TO BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY”

Bob Boyda Areopagus or Mars’ Hill (knoll in foreground). Acropolis in background. Athens, Greece, furnishes us with much archaeological data from the ruins of the market place in the low lands of the city to its temples, amphitheaters, and especially the Parthenon and temple ruins of Erechtheum on the Acropolis, all of which date back … Continue reading “THE
AREOPAGUS, OR MARS’ HILL”