Reason 22 - No Archaeology in conflict with Torah
No archaeological discovery has controverted a biblical reference
And in his “Conclusion” on pages 111-112 of Permission to Receive Rabbi Lawrence Keleman says:
G Ernest Wright, funder of Biblical Archaeologist, director of the Shechem excavations, and president of the American Schools of Oriental Research, wrote in 1962, “The biblical scholar no longer bothers to ask whether archaeology proves the Bible… He knows that such a question is certainly to be answered in the affirmative.” In 1968, William Albright wrote, “The Mosaic tradition is to consistent, so well attested by different pentateuchal documents, and so congruent with our independent knowledge of the religious developments of the Near East in the late second millennium B.C., that only hypercritical pseudo-rationalism can reject its essential historicity.” John Bright wrote in 1972, “The biblical narrative, at least in all major points, is rooted in history.” In 1981, the University of Sheffield’s John Bimson wrote, “The biblical traditions and the archaeological evidence relate with striking accuracy.” Professor Nelson Glueck, whose work was described by the editors of The Biblical Archaeologist Reader as “one of the two most important individual contributions to the field of Palestinian archaeology in our generation” (second to Albright’s), summarized the situation quite eloquently: “It may be stated categorically that no archaeological discovery has ever controverted a biblical reference.” |