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Below are four responses from Claude.ai related to Pontius Pilate’s taking temple funds to build a southern aqueduct that ran from Solomon’s Pool, past Bethlehem, and was under construction during Jesus’ ministry. Taking the temple funds was protested and resulted in Pilate’s military killing many protestors. The Aqueduct Incident in Jerusalem Under Pontius Pilate The […]
Continue ReadingExtracts from The Destruction of Pompeii—God’s Revenge? By Hershel Shanks, 2010 First the dates: The Romans destroyed the Second Temple (Herod’s Temple) on the same date that the Babylonians had destroyed the First Temple (Solomon’s Temple) in 586 B.C.E. But the exact date of the Babylonian destruction is uncertain. Two different dates are given in the Hebrew […]
Continue ReadingBelow are 5 of the 10 from 10 Times Archaeology Has Disagreed with the Biblical Narrative written by Joshua Schachterle, Ph.D, posted April 7th, 2025. The sentences after the items were also extracted for the books and scholars he referenced. There is more info in his paper.
Continue ReadingExtracts from and links to the BAS LIBRARY EXPLORER March 30, 2025 Considered sacred ground even before Solomon’s Temple stood there and bitterly contested in our own day, the Temple Mount is one of the most fascinating and important places on earth. BAS editors have compiled a special collection of articles from Biblical Archaeology Review that highlight […]
Continue ReadingExcavating Philistine Gath: Have We Found Goliath’s Hometown? by Aren M. Maeir, Carl S. Ehrlich Three of the five cities of the famous Philistine Pentapolis have long been known—Ashkelon, Ashdod and Gaza. A fourth, Ekron, has recently been confirmed by an inscription, locating it at modern Tel Miqne. Gath, the fifth, remains somewhat of a mystery. We believe […]
Continue ReadingSearching for Cana: Where Jesus Turned Water into Wine by C. Thomas McCollough Extracts from his post at the BAS Library are below. Khirbet Cana (“the ruins of Cana”), a bare 8.5 miles from Nazareth (and, equally important, 5 mi northeast of Sepphoris) in lower Galilee, has long been identified as New Testament Cana, although not without […]
Continue ReadingThe italicised paragraphs below are from Why Do People Build Walls? The Real Story of Jericho Offers a Surprising Answer by Ian Volner May 30, 2019. The reformatting into a bullet list is by this web guy. After several centuries of habitation, the community that had built the first wall disappeared from the area. Subsequent […]
Continue ReadingWhat Is the Shephelah? Exploring the heartland of ancient Judah by Nathan Steinmeyer, January 27, 2025 The five paragraphs below were extracted from the above article. The Shephelah is a transition zone between the Judean Highlands in the east—the area of Jerusalem and Hebron—and the coastal plain in the west. Consisting of gently rolling hills, the […]
Continue ReadingHere are two ChatGPT responses that provide scholars and their findings about the historicity of Joshua 6 and the collapse of the walls and killing all men, women, children, and animals. Below the first response are two more prompts: First Prompt: Provide info on Kathleen Kenyon’s work at Jericho revealing no evidence of city walls […]
Continue ReadingBAR article High Places, Altars and the Bamah, Not all they are cracked up to be by Ellen White, June 16, 2024 The open-air altar shrine, called a bamah (plural bamot), is known through several books of the Biblical canon—but none more so than the Book of Kings, where they play a prominent role in assessing the performance of […]
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