Living in Truth: Archaeology and the Patriarchs (Part I)

Living in Truth: Archaeology and the Patriarchs (Part I)
Author: Charles N. Pope
Publisher: DomainOfMan.com
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: History
ISBN:

Pre-Dynastic, Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, Hyksos Period and early New Kingdom Egypt. The great pharaohs of Egypt are placed in context with their Biblical counterparts.

Living in Truth: Archaeology and the Patriarchs (Part III)

Living in Truth: Archaeology and the Patriarchs (Part III)
Author: Charles N Pope
Publisher: DomainOfMan.com
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The history of the Egyptian Late Period (native rule) is covered, including the Piye Victory Stela, Nitocris Adoption Stela and foreign conquests of Egypt. (2nd Edition)

The Great Pyramid Disrespected

The Great Pyramid Disrespected
Author: Charles N. Pope
Publisher: DomainOfMan.com
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2023-02-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The Bible and Mythology have a good deal to say about the origin of the Great Pyramid and how it relates to the anthropology of hominins, including modern humans.

A Biblical History of Israel

A Biblical History of Israel
Author: Iain William Provan
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664220907

In this much-anticipated textbook, three respected biblical scholars have written a history of ancient Israel that takes the biblical text seriously as an historical document. While also considering nonbiblical sources and being attentive to what disciplines like archaeology, anthropology, and sociology suggest about the past, the authors do so within the context and paradigm of the Old Testament canon, which is held as the primary document for reconstructing Israel's history. In Part One, the authors set the volume in context and review past and current scholarly debate about learning Israel's history, negating arguments against using the Bible as the central source. In Part Two, they seek to retell the history itself with an eye to all the factors explored in Part One.

Jacob

Jacob
Author: Yair Zakovitch
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300188978

DIV A powerful hero of the Bible, Jacob is also one of its most complex figures. Bible stories recounting his life often expose his deception, lies, and greed—then, puzzlingly, attempt to justify them. In this book, eminent biblical scholar Yair Zakovitch presents a complete view of the patriarch, first examining Jacob and his life story as presented in the Bible, then also reconstructing the stories that the Bible writers suppressed—tales that were well-known, perhaps, but incompatible with the image of Jacob they wanted to promote. Through a work of extraordinary “literary archaeology,” Zakovitch explores the recesses of literary history, reaching back even to the stage of oral storytelling, to identify sources of Jacob's story that preceded the work of the Genesis writers. The biblical writers were skilled mosaic-makers, Zakovitch shows, and their achievement was to reshape diverse pre-biblical representations of Jacob in support of their emerging new religion and identity. As the author follows Jacob in his wanderings and revelations, his successes, disgraces, and disappointments, he also considers the religious and political environment in which the Bible was written, offering a powerful explication of early Judaism. /div

The Stones Cry Out

The Stones Cry Out
Author: Randall Price
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 450
Release: 1997
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1565076400

This survey of archaeological discoveries in Bible lands includes testimonies and interviews from leading archaeologists and exciting pictures featuring the latest finds made in the lands of the Bible

Has Archaeology Buried the Bible?

Has Archaeology Buried the Bible?
Author: William G. Dever
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467459496

Bringing the Bible and ancient Israel into a new and brighter light In the last several decades, archaeological evidence has dramatically illuminated ancient Israel. However, instead of proving the truth of the Bible—as an earlier generation had confidently predicted—the new discoveries have forced us to revise much of what was thought to be biblical truth, provoking an urgent question: If the biblical stories are not always true historically, what, if anything, is still salvageable of the Bible’s ethical and moral values? Has Archaeology Buried the Bible? simplifies these complex issues and summarizes the new, archaeologically attested ancient Israel, period by period (ca. 1200–600 BCE). But it also explores in detail how a modern, critical reader of the Bible can still find relevant truths by which to live.

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great
Author: Charles N. Pope
Publisher: DomainOfMan.com
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Alexander the Great: Beyond the Divide, by Charles N. Pope not only “cuts the Gordian Knot” of Alexander research, but also unveils Alexander as the primary inspiration for Christ. Alexander was such a towering figure that at least some influence on emerging Christianity would be expected. However, upon closer inspection the parallels between Alexander and Jesus turn out to be both extensive and profound. Alexander the Great's birth had been "immaculately conceived" and then "celestially announced." He was a precocious youth that confounded his elders. He railed against conventional thinking (orthodoxy) and was revered everywhere, except by his own family and home town. His campaign began with a wedding. He cast out demons and was accused of having a demon. He fed the multitudes and spoke in parables. He was particularly fond of the mustard seed. He traveled incessantly. He prayed for those that spitefully used him. He walked on water and calmed the tempest. He was warned against entering his capital, but approached his prophesized demise with eager resolve. He was lifted up into the "heavens" and also descended to the "underworld." His higher calling was to attain a faraway kingdom, and one that could only be gained through a symbolic death and ascension. He comforted and later appeared to his followers. He moved mountains and enveloped those who believed in him from the onslaught of the godless. And the comparisons go on.

Where God Came Down

Where God Came Down
Author: Joel P. Kramer
Publisher: Expedition Bible
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2020-10-14
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9780998037424

In stark contrast to the biblical skepticism of our modern age, Where God Came Down emphasizes agreementbetween the Bible and archaeology. Using Scripture as his primary ancient text and most crucial interpretive tool,author Joel Kramer examines the archaeological record for ten locations recorded in the Bible.What is the evidence that supports these sites as the actual biblical places?-is a question that Kramer seeks toanswer by analyzing five Old Testament sites and five New Testament sites.Does it matter to know if these sites are authentic?-is another critical question raised. Kramer responds witha resounding, Yes! It matters because the Bible is not a made-up account of antiquity, as many today claim.Instead, the Bible is a record of real events and actual places that can be traced through the course of centuries.Peeling back layers of dirt and time, Kramer expertly lays out the archaeological evidence for his chosen biblicalsites. But more than that, he carefully reveals the profound spiritual significance that ordinary, unimportantplaces became the setting where redemption's story played out on earth-the places Where God Came Down.