Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

Their contemporaneity, and indeed, familiarity one with the other, see: The Book of Judith Expands the Prophet Isaiah http://www.academia.edu/4408289/The_Book_of_Judith would be the AMAIC'S explanation for the striking likenesses between the Book of Isaiah and the Book of Judith, as recognised in the following article, from: http://chs.harvard.edu/wa/pageR?tn=ArticleWrapper&bdc=12&mn=4703 .... History out of the Prophecies of Isaiah As many scholars have already shown, the Book of Judith’s use of biblical texts was not merely a matter of incorporating scatted expressions from favored texts; it also took characters and whole episodes as models for the composition of its own corresponding characters and events. For instance, the Song of the Sea and the Song of Deborah evidently served as exemplars for the song that Judith herself sings in celebration of the victory of the Israelites over Sisera and the invading Assyrians. But...

  The Lost Rivers of the Garden of Eden   The quest for pinpointing the exact location of the Biblical Garden of Eden and the four rivers almost rivals the quest for the location of fabled Atlantis. And the theories that abound are almost as numerous as the interpretations of the seven days of Genesis. Before tackling this question let's review what is written in Genesis about the four rivers: And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. (Genesis 2:10-14 KJV) The Bible says that a sin...

Terrific article, a must read: http://www.academia.edu/2184113/_2013_Identifying_Nimrod_of_Genesis_10_with_Sar .... JETS 56/2 (2013) 273–305 IDENTIFYING NIMROD OF GENESIS 10 WITH SARGON OF AKKAD BY  EXEGETICAL  AND  ARCHAEOLOGICAL   MEANS DOUGLAS PETROVICH * I. INTRODUCTION Perhaps one of the more intriguing and enigmatic characters in the OT is Nimrod, though his name appears only four times throughout the entire Bible (Gen 10:8, 9; 1 Chr 1:10; and Mic 5:6). His biography is narrated in Genesis 10, and opinions about his identity and character have abounded since ancient times. In Philo’s Questiones in Genes in 2.82, which dates to the first half of the first century AD, he refers to Nimrod as a giant who opposes God, and the original and chief of sinners. In Ant  . 1.113–114, Josephus considered not only that Nimrod was alive during the tower of Babel incident, but that he was the one who changed the government into a tyranni...

Nahum, Nineveh and Those Nasty Assyrians Technical - May 28, 2009 - by Gordon Franz MA This article was first published in the Fall 2003 issue of Bible and Spade. If I mentioned the city Nineveh, what would come to your mind? Most likely you would say Jonah. We have all heard the story about Jonah being swallowed by the great fish and then going to Nineveh to preach against the city. His message was short and to the point, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown” (Jon 3:4, all Scripture quotes are from the NKJV). The city, from the king to the dogcatcher, repented. Have you ever wondered what happened to Nineveh after that? The short prophetic book of Nahum tells us “the rest of the story.” The Date of the Book of Nahum Scholars have long debated the date of the book of Nahum. A wide range of dates has been suggested, from the eighth century BC (Feinberg 1951:126, 148) to the Maccabean period, early second century BC (Haupt 1907). Yet, the book gives us internal c...