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.
15 Aug 2026 4 min read
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Archaeology, history and the people who lived the biblical story.
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How We Got the Bible: From Scrolls to Modern Translations
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.
15 Aug 2026 5 min read
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Who Wrote the Pentateuch? The Case for Moses
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.
15 Aug 2026 5 min read
Read Esther: The Book Where God's Name Never Appears
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.
2 Aug 2026 7 min read
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