Sentences with phrase «biblical archeology»
Casey, I HAVE studied theology, I suspect a LOT more than you, as well as biblical archeology at an Ivy League place.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
There were other issues too: The way the accounts of Israel's monarchy contradicted one another, the way Jesus and Paul quoted Hebrew Scripture in ways that seemed to stretch the original meaning, the fact that women were considered property in Levitical Law, the way both science and archeology challenged the historicity of so many biblical texts, and the fact that it was nearly impossible for me to write a creative retelling of Resurrection Day because each of the gospel writers tell the story so differently, sometimes with contradictory details.
You don't have to buy - in to the «truth» behind what the Bible puports to be divine revelation... but the idea that archeology has not unearthed historically supportive evidence of biblical accounts, is ridiculous... thousands and thousands of finds support an historically accurate account portrayed in the Bible...
Even if one believes that the various claims within the Bible are wholly accurate, it is always possible that a new discovery in archeology, history, or biblical scholarship will overturn the current body of evidence.