Bible beats archeologists

Yup, the Bible totaly rules. Here are some other proofs of the Bible from the archeologists' point of view.

1. Scientists stated that the Bible is historically inaccurate because they believed that King David was a fictional character. They said that the remains of Egyptian, Babylonian, and  Assyrian cultures make no specific reference to him. But recently an Assyrian stone tablet dating from the ninth century B.C. has been found by a group of archeologists in northen Israel.  It shows an Aramaic inscription listing Assyria's enemies. Included in the list were the words ''king of Isreal'' and ''House of David''

2.The most documented biblical event is the worldwide flood described in Genesis 6-9. Discoveries indicate that a number of Babylonian documents described the same flood. The Sumerian King List..., for example, lists kings who reigned for long periods of time. Then a great flood came. Following the flood, Sumerian kings ruled for a much shorter periods of time. This is the same pattern found in the Bible. People had long life spans before the flood . Also, the 11th tablet of the Gigamesh Epic speaks of an ark ,animals taken on the ark, birds sent out during the course of the flood, the flood landing on a mountain, and a sacrifice offered after the ark landed.

3.The Hittes were once thought to be a biblical legend, until their capital and records were discovered at Bogazkoy, Turkey.

4. It was once claimed that there was no Assyrian king named Sargon as recorded in Isaiah 20:1, because this name was not known in any other record. Then, Sargon's palace was discovered in Khorsabad, Iraq. atahe very event mentioned in Isaiah 20, his capture of Ashdod, was recorded on the palace walls. What is more, fragments of a stela memorializing the victory were found at Ashdod itself.

5.Another king who was in doubt was Belshazzar, king of  Babylon, named in Daniel 5. The last king of Babylon was Nabonidus according to recorded history. But recently tablets were found showing that Belshazzar could offer to make Daniel ''third higest ruler in the kingdom'' (Daniel 5:16) for reading the handwriting on the wall, the highest available position.

Bible stories just a legend? Think again..

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*sources: Discover the Book, Bill Bright