Recommended Archaeology Posts

Until I get the free time to type up a more full blog post of my own, let me recommend a couple of posts to you from the Parchment and Pen blog. If you are at all interested in history and archaeology, these posts should excite you. The series is called "The Top Ten Biblical Discoveries in Archaeology." They do a good job of warning Christians in believing in the "folk theology" and undocumented stories that end up circulating around church circles. Heck, many of these supposed "discoveries" are outright forgeries created with the intention to bolster faith in Biblical exposition. Shame that they end up having the exact opposite effect...

In this series, however, they will be looking at the serious, scholarly discoveries that have provided legitimization to the Biblical record. The Bible is actual history, not myth, and more and more discoveries have been made to provide indicators to that point. I have provided links to the introductory post, and the #10 in the top ten countdown.

My hope and prayer is that you would find a connection with God through the study of history. I have had some of my most profound "God moments" as I look through the historical record and see that the hand of God working throughout our story. I find it incredibly refreshing to connect with that larger historical stream of the people of God. Sometimes, we as 21st century thinkers can be exceptionally myopic.

Here are the links:

Introduction: http://bit.ly/aL7SVG

#10, Assyrian Lachish Reliefs: http://bit.ly/bLDx8j

Enjoy! Obviously they will be doing more of these in the coming weeks.