Archeology Of The Bibile

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Tell, Tel

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A hill of occupational debris left over from ancient civilization

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Stratigraphy

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The layering of time periods in Tells/Tels

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Pottery Chronology

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As you go through the strata of a Tell/the forms of pottery change - Can tell what date pottery is from

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Artifacts

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Anything humans made that's left in the geological record

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Nobonidus

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First historic archeologist

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Plato - Archaelogia

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Introduced the word archeology - it meant anything related to the ancient past

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Antiquities Studies

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Example - "The antiquities of the Jews."
- Literary genre for writings dealing with the past (Time of J.C.)

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Three First Discoveries

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1. Original Jericho Pot - found a biblical scroll inside the dead sea scroll
2. Helena & True Cross - Constantine's Mother credited to goign to Jerusalme and getting 3 crosses
3. Barnabas' tomb on Cyprus - Found still clutching the book of Matthew.

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Catacombs

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Popular place to explore ancient tombs

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Relics

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Exploration of the Catacombs led to interesting Relics
Anything people said was left over from Christian time - they thought it had supernatural power.

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Crusades

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- Battle to acuire Holy Lands
- Lasted 200 years
- After the crusades closed, Christian were closed off from Holy Lands

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Antiquarianism

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Time period after the crusades of revived interest in collecting things from the past

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Curiosity Cabinets

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The first museums

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Mr.Postal & Paleo-Hebrew

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Discovered ancient manuscripts and coins with Paleo-Hebrew on them (coins dated to the time of Jesus)

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Paleo-Hebrew

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Early Hebrew Writing

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Three Bad results of the Reformation - introduction of skepticism

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1. Warefare
2. British Authoritarianism: attitude of the church
3. Introduction of Evolution and Skepticism

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British Authoritarianism

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Something that led a lot of intellectuals to not like the Bible

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Skepticism

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People started using Biblical Archeology to defend against the attacks of scepticism.

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Age of Enlightenment

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Alternate explanations of origin, not involving God, arose

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Lord Herbert of Cherbury

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British founder of Deism

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Deism

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- God exists, but has little to do with us on this planet
- God without church, Bible or doctrine

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Thomas Hobbes

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- Doubted Moses' authorship
- One of the first to openly criticize the Mosaic authorship

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Supremacy of Reason

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- Above the Bible

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Benedict Spinoza

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-Argued for the supremacy of reason
- Also Descart

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Rational Orthodoxy

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- Attempt to defend the Bible using reason
- Two people who tried this
- John Locke
- Isaac Newton

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Rational Orthodoxy

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Failed

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British Revival

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A counter reaction to skepticism

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Pietism

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Attempting to live perfectly regardless of the skeptics

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Richard Simon

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Father of historical criticism

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German rationalism - German critics

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Immanuel Kant
- Argued that if God exists, he's very far from us and that he cant communicate iwth us
- A wall between God and us

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French Invasion 1798

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Invaded Egypt
Savants - "wise men" brought by Napoleon to live in Egypt
- Came back with the 1st comprehensive record of the Bible Lands
- Modern Biblical Archeology starts in 1798

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Rosetta Stones

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Three Languages: Hieroglyphics, Demotic, Greek
- Helped discover the biblical connections

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Text vs.Tell

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- Difference between what the bible says vs. what the text said.

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Text vs. Tell Battlegrounds

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- Flood, Patriarchs, Moses
- Emergence of Israel - did it really exist?
- Biblical Monarchy

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Sayce vs.Wellhausen & Driver

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Not Sure...

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Albright vs. Wellhausen

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Not Sure...

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Kitchen Vs Minimalists

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Darwinism

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the theory of the evolution of species by natural selection advanced by Charles Darwin.

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Claudius Rich

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Reality of Babylon
Visits the site of Babylon
"The Monuments"
- he called the things in Babylon the monuments

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Paul Botta

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British Diplomat
First person to systematically dig up a biblical site
Discovered Sargon II - first modern principle person to be confirmed by archeology

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Sargon II

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Discovered by Botta
in 1843 (Isa 20:1)
Confirmed by archaeology

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Edward Hinks

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1846
- First guy to decipher and find Nebuchadnezer's name on bricks from Rawlinsons site

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Henry Rawlinson

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- Decyphered Behistun Inscription
- WRites first Biblical archeology book

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Behistun Inscription

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Had Persian/Cuneiform and Acadian
Rawlison deciphered it
Opened Babyloninan and Persian History

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Cunifiorm scripts

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Wedge shaped characters

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Henry Layard

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Found the black Obelisk

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Nimrud

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- Dug up by Henry Layard (1845 - for Biritish

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Black Obelisk

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Had a whole bunch of Biblical names
- Jehu & Pic

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Jehu

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- A picture of Jehu bowing before Shalmanesser on the Black Obelisk

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Nineveh and Its Remains

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- 1853, Layard wrote this book
- Listed 55 biblical persons & places
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Nineveh and Its Remains - Findings

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- Shown in exhibits in London
- Had an impact on evangelicals in USA

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George Rawlinson

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- First Explicit book on archaeology
- 1860 - 1st book on Archeology and Bible
- Argues that basic historicity of the Bible is true

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1865 - PEF

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Palestine Exploration Fund - raise money and send expiditions

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Surveys by Royal Engineers

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Helped explore the Bible Lands