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Bible prophecy checked against the historical record

Joshua

  • The earliest mention of Israel

    An Egyptian victory monument from around 1208 BCE lists the peoples of Canaan that Pharaoh claims to have crushed. One of them is Israel. It is the oldest surviving occurrence of the name — and it is used to prove…

  • Bible Trivia: Exodus and the Wilderness

    Twelve questions on the departure from Egypt and the forty years that followed, at three levels, each answer worked through with the passage behind it.

  • Joshua

    A conquest account, three competing models to explain it, and the most useful check of all: the first chapter of the next book, which says the land was not taken.

  • Bible Trivia: Moses

    Twelve questions on the life of Moses from the river to the far side of the Jordan, drawn from Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy rather than from the films.