Your Own Historical Jesus : Biblical Archaeology and the Old Testament

A brief overview of what biblical archaeology really is and a very brief introduction to the history of the Old Testament.

Resources:


Eddy, Paul Rhodes and Gregory A Boyd
2007. The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition. Grands Rapids, MI. Baker Academic

Finkelstine, Isral and Neil Asher Silberman
2001. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacred Texts. New York, NY. Thouchstone.

Freund, Richard A.
2009. Digging Through the Bible: Understaning Biblical People, Places and Controversy Through Archaeology. Lanham, MD. Rowman & LIttlefield Pub. INC.

Zindler, Frank R.
2003. The Jesus the Jews Never KNew. Parsippany, NJ. American Athiest Press.

Music:

Private Reflection by Kevin McCloud

Category:

Education

Tags:

• biblical archaeology
• Old testament
• Historical Jesus

[achtungcircus]

Do you have an opinion of William Dever?

[ArchyFantasies]

@achtungcircus Well, I had to look him up and hope that the Wiki entry on him is decent, I agree with him.

[zarkoff45]

You might want to use VenomFangX as a foil for a future episode of "Your own Historical Jesus." This example of literary pareidolia has Venom using the Old Testament as a prediction of Jesus:

watch?v=N8ldVftSX9s

Make sure to put Venom's name in the tag section and you'll get more hits and subs.

[ArchyFantasies]

@zarkoff45 I don't want to give PCS any more press then he's already gotten. That guy is just...I have no words.

[PrimateDaddy]

To what extent are the archaeologists with a pro-Biblical agenda muddying up the waters for the rest of you guys?

[ArchyFantasies]

@PrimateDaddy Well, it doesn't really begin to be a problem till we have to deal with crap like the "Crucifixion Nails" the "James Ossuaries" and creationism in general. Though I have a funny story about when I went to the Creation Expo here in Indiana. There's a vid I need to make.

[jfrontier1]

Very enjoyable. Nice job.

[gurucarcar]

Religion was born???  Religion was born way before the Bible.

[Mectrixctic]

@ArchyFantasies

You should read his book "Who were the Early Israelites and where did they come from" From what I heard it's kind of a response to Finklestine.

Here's a 30 minute interview with him. It's downloadable so you can save it if you currently don't have time.

watch?v=-G8BQidYdL8

[ArchyFantasies]

@falchion49 yah, and then they lose site of the larger overall picture.

[falchion49]

One of the problems with Biblical Archaeology is that the agenda led version relies on artefacts as opposed to the actual contexted archaeology.