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List of biblical figures identified in extra-biblical sources; List of Egyptian papyri by date; List of proposed Assyrian references to Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) Model of Jerusalem in the Late 2nd Temple Period; Near Eastern archaeology; Nag Hammadi library – early Christian gnostic papyri. Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible
The Levant and Canaan. Biblical archaeology is an academic school and a subset of Biblical studies and Levantine archaeology.Biblical archaeology studies archaeological sites from the Ancient Near East and especially the Holy Land (also known as Land of Israel and Canaan), from biblical times.
The Biblical Archaeology Society is the publisher of its own magazine, Biblical Archaeology Review, which has generated extensive public following. [3] BAR is both nonsectarian and 'non-academic' and as such, has been attributed with setting the agenda for discourse surrounding issues relating to both the Bible and archaeological matters. [3]
Book of Jasher – the name of a lost book mentioned several times in the Bible, which was subject to at least two high-profile forgeries in the 18th and 19th century. [2] [3] Gospel of Josephus – 1927 forgery attributed to Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, actually created by Italian writer Luigi Moccia to raise publicity for one of his ...
The trouble began on Yom Kippur, when a Jewish man engaged in prayer on the city’s 37-acre ancient acropolis that Muslims call the Noble Sanctuary, or Haram al-Sharif. Christian Archaeologists ...
Ronald Eldon Wyatt (June 2, 1933 – August 4, 1999), was an American nurse anesthetist and amateur archaeologist, who claimed to have made almost 100 biblical archaeology discoveries. One of his more notable claims is the supposed landing place of Noah's Ark at the Durupınar site .
The authenticity of the relics and the accuracy of reports of finding the True Cross is not accepted by all Christians. The belief in the Early Christian Church tradition regarding the True Cross is generally restricted to the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. The medieval legends of the True Cross provenance differ between Catholic and ...
Moses Wilhelm Shapira (Hebrew: מוזס וילהלם שפירא; 1830 – March 9, 1884) was a Jerusalem antiquities dealer and purveyor of both authentic and forged Semitic antiquities, including some allegedly Biblical artifacts, the most high profile of which was the Shapira Scroll.