[GodGunsGuts]

ping!

[Red Badger]

http://www.piney.com/BabMoabite.html

[DoughtyOne]

Nice read... thanks.

[metmom]

The cuneiform inscription in a tablet dating from 595BC has been deciphered for the first time – revealing a reference to an official at the court of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, that proves the historical existence of a figure mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah.

I guess the Bible isn't good enough for some people. It isn't really true unless some source outside the Bible verifies it.

*shakes head*

[Lee N. Field]

Is there anything that nails down that this Nebo-sarsekim is the same individual mentioned in by Jerimaiah?

Vis-a-vis old stuff, I think there's also extant a signet ring or cylinder seal that was the property of a priest mentioned in the Bible who lived during the monarchy.

The historical parts of the Bible do not read like fanciful legends. They read like sober historical accounts. I've got no particular reason to doubt them.

[Phantom Lord]

Unlike Mormonism, Scientology, and some others, Christianity and The Bible have sizable collections of historical artifacts that back them up.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

On hearing of the discovery yesterday, Geza Vermes, the eminent emeritus professor of Jewish studies at the University of Oxford, said that such a discovery revealed that “the Biblical story is not altogether invented”. He added: “This will be interesting for religious people as much as historians.”

How gracious of him to concede this much.

[SJackson]

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[RobbyS]

We started out with the assumption that the historical books of the Bible were, well, historical. Then came the Higher critics who asserted that no, they are not historical because, well they are “biblical”.

[SunkenCiv]

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