Biblical Historical Context

European Christian interested in the intersection between archaeology, historical criticism, and faith. Herald of the Bear Apocalypse. ☩

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The Merneptah Stele - the next instalment in the "Beyond Apologetics" series
https://t.co/CYJ7nPjQAD

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@KameronMazurek @HopefulTheism Wait when did AE go?

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@KameronMazurek Sadly not

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@KameronMazurek You must truly hate yourself

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@HopefulTheism @KameronMazurek Pretty much 😂

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Christmas Mass at the Birmingham Oratory last night; it’s where J. R. R. Tolkien used to worship. Parked outside his old place so his spirit could watch over my car.

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Pages 236–237, specifically.

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Does anyone on here have a copy of Bagatti's 1969 "Excavations in Nazareth: From the beginning till the XII century" that they could send me a couple of pages from? (https://t.co/QxiGntmsDh)

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@shanemuk @amateurexegete It's excellent. As is everything else I found by him after reading his 2023 "The Archaeology of Jesus' Nazareth".

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@amateurexegete @goodacre Never heard the phrase before. It's times like this when my finely crafted disguise as a Brit is shown for the sham that it is.

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“Twenty-first-century historians might want their sources to write in ‘correct’ Greek, but there is no reason to suppose that everyone in the first-century Roman provinces thought that terminological exactitude was essential.” Ken Dark, Archaeology of Jesus’ Nazareth, p. 136.

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I love that in the in the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary's "Andrew (Person)" article the 5 loaves and 2 fishes are called the "expandable lunch"

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Ever wanted an example of an archaeological find changing how a biblical passage is translated? No? Too bad; here you go. https://t.co/Hc6cDTFpGH

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“I think that it can be made clear to children that the creation story is not some sort of naïve hypothesis about how the world came into being; rather, it is a qualitative statement about reality and about ourselves.” - Benedict XVI

If kids can manage, why can’t many adults?

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

Anti-intellectualism: it's not just for religious people anymore.
(Quick thread).
Okay, so I hardly ever call out individual accounts, especially anonymous ones, but I feel justified using this account as an example for something that concerns me because 1) it's a huge account

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The greatest movie

[Yonatan Adler @AdlerYonatan]

Can a deeply religious Christian or Jewish scholar engage in sound archaeological/historical research which relates in one way or another to the Bible?
My answer is a resolute “YES!”
So long as there is no conflict between the scholar’s beliefs and the subject of the study.
🧵1/9

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@benjamindfalcon The stained glass too. Marvelous.

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Great Witley Church. @benjamindfalcon you’d love this place.

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@benjamindfalcon Yup. They could have gone wild, but they decided to go dignified instead.