Archaeology and the Bible: Stones That Speak
From the Pool of Siloam to the Pilate Stone — what a century of digging has actually confirmed about the biblical world, and what it hasn't.
Honest, careful answers to the biggest questions about the faith.
In this collection
From the Pool of Siloam to the Pilate Stone — what a century of digging has actually confirmed about the biblical world, and what it hasn't.
Scribes, scrolls, councils and translators — how sixty-six books written over fifteen centuries became the Bible you can read on your phone, and why scholars are so confident in it.
The Documentary Hypothesis versus the traditional view — what the text itself, ancient Near Eastern parallels and Jesus's own testimony say about the authorship of the first five books.
A clear-eyed look at the empty tomb, the earliest creed, and the men who died for what they saw. The alternative theories, weighed honestly, and what is at stake if the evidence is right.
Centuries before Jesus, the Hebrew scriptures describe a suffering servant, a Bethlehem birthplace, and a Messiah's timeline. This is the Bible's most checkable claim, and the debate over it is more interesting than you'd think.
The book of Esther never mentions God by name, yet every page turns on his quiet work. A feast, a queen, a sleepless king, a gallows — and a providence that never introduces itself.