The Bible as History
The New Encyclopedia Britannica calls the Bible "the most influential collection of books in human history"
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, called the Bible "the best gift God has ever given to man ... but for it we could not know right from wrong".
However,during the 18th and 19th centuries, certain academically minded Christians began to question the Bible's historical accuracy. These scholars became known as "higher critics" and claimed much of the Bible was composed of legend and myth.
Even in the 21st Century, higher criticism is still taught in the seminaries of Christendom. It is far from unusual to hear prominent clergymen publicly disavow large sections of the Bible. One Anglican minister was recently quoted in an Australian newspaper as saying "... the Bible is just wrong! The history is wrong. The details are garbled"
Is this true?
How historically accurate is the Bible?
Can we base our faith and confidence on its historical reliability?
This DVD ROM attempts to provide exhaustive evidence from reliable historical and archaeological sources that the Bible is accurate and reliable in every detail and statement it makes.
The DVD ROM presents its collections is in FOUR sections:
1. Reference Works (all in PDF format, fully searchable and printable)
- Archaeology and the Bible - George Barton
- Explorations in the Bible Lands - H V Hilprecht
- Archeological Discoveries and their Bearing on the New Testament - Camden M Cobern
- The Works of Falvius Josephus - Translated by William Whiston
- Christianity in Josephus, Tacitus and Suetonius - Henry Julian White
- The Last Days of Jerusalem - Alfred J Church
- Ancient Empires of the East - A H Sayce
- History of the People of Israel - Carl Cornill
- A History of the Literature of Ancient Israel - Henry Fowler
- Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations - A H Sayce
- Politics and Religion in Ancient Israel - James Todd
- Bible Chronology carefully unfolded - Smith B Goodenow
- The Exodus - Alfred Edersheim
- Digging up Biblical History - J.Garrow Duncan
- The Truth of the Bible Confirmed by History - Bourchier Savile
- A Dictionary of the Bible - Philip Schaff
- The Ecclesiastical historians - Philo and Josephus - John Jones
- Education in Ancient Israel - Fletcher Swift
- Egypt and Israel - W.Brewer
- Abraham, his life and times - W J Deane
- Moses and the Monuments - Melvin Grove Kyle
- The Life and Times of Joseph in the Light of Egyptian History - Henry Tomkins
- The Book of Isaiah in the light of History - Robert Kennett
- The Great Epic of Israel - Amos Fiske
- History, Prophecy and the Monuments (Vol 1) - James McCurdy
- History, Prophecy and the Monuments (Vol 2) - James McCurdy
- History, Prophecy and the Monuments (Vol 3) - James McCurdy
- Ancient Chronology - Olaf Alfred Toffteen
- The Historic Exodus - Olaf Alfred Toffteen
- Jewish History from the return from Babylon to Herod the Great - H A Henry
- Abraham Lincolns Use and Respect for the Bible - Samuel Jackson
- Authority and Archaeology - D G Hogarth
- The Old Testament in the Light of the Ancient East - Alfred Jeremias
- Blending Lights - William Fraser
- The Bible Vindicated by Discoveries in Lands of Scripture - Anon
- The Old and New Testament Connected (Vol 1) - Humphrey Prideaux
- The Old and New Testament Connected (Vol 2) - Humphrey Prideaux
- Herod the Great - William Willet
- Archeological research in Bible Lands - Abraham Anspacher
- History and the Gospels - C H Dodds
- Studies in Biblical Archaeology - Joseph Jacobs
- The Bible Vindicated - Anon
- Biblical Archaeology - Johann Jahn
- The Am ha-aretz and there Place in Hebrew Society - Mayer Sulzberger
- Bible History - William Henry Green
- The Chronology of the Hebrew Bible Vindicated - Robert Clayton
- The Bible as literature - William Fiddian Moulton
- Eighteen Treatises from the Mishna - D A de Sola
- Archaeology of the Old Testament - Edouard Naville
- Biblical Archaeology - Louis Berkhof
2. Video
- Over 4 hours of informative video presentations in WMV format (computer use only).
3. Audio
- An excellent audio presentation :"The Louvre Museum and the Bible" in MP3 format (computer use only).
4. Pictures
An interesting selection of JPEG images featuring many famous archeological artifacts that did much
to silence the critics of the Bible.
All in all, an excellent resource for personal study, back ground Bible research and public speaking assignment preparation.
Even if many still stubbornly view the Bible as merely the "word of men", all true Christians have an obligation to "let God be found true, though every man be found a liar". (Rom 3:4)
Hopefully this DVD ROM will help you do this.
Temple relief at Karnak, Egypt describing Pharaoh Shishaks invasion of Judea
"The Moabite Stone" in the Louvre Museum, Paris although a Pagan relic, features the Divine name repeatedly in reference to the Israelites, showing it was in common usuage in antiquity.
The Priests at the temple in Jerusalem show Alexander the biblical prophesies predicting his rise to power. (Dan 8: 5 - 8, 21)
Tiberius Caesar : the Gospel writer Luke's remarkably detailed time line (Luke 3: 1 - 3)
matched Tiberius 15th year with the start of Jesus ministry. All the Roman officials mentioned in the account are confirmed by secular historians.
The Arch of Titus in Rome, graphically illustrates the power of fulfilled Bible prophecy. Roman soldiers loot the temple in Jerusalem, a destruction vividly predicted by Jesus Christ 37 years previous. (Matt 24, Mark 13, Luke 21)
