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Bible prophecy checked against the historical record

Isaiah

  • Bible Trivia: The Dead Sea Scrolls

    Twelve questions on the manuscripts that pushed the Hebrew Bible’s textual evidence back a thousand years — what they contain, what they settled, and what they did not.

  • Bible Trivia: How a Text Is Dated

    Twelve questions on the methods behind every date you have read for a biblical book — manuscripts, internal limits, and the circular argument almost everybody makes.

  • Bible Trivia: Assyria and the Bible

    Twelve questions on the empire that ended the northern kingdom and besieged the southern one — with every answer worked through against the Assyrian records themselves.

  • Bible Trivia: Manuscripts and Translations

    Twelve questions on how the Bible reached us: the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Septuagint, the great codices, P46, and the passage whose insertion can be traced document by document.

  • Bible Trivia: Archaeology and the Bible

    Twelve questions on the archaeology touching the Bible: the Kurkh Monolith, the Black Obelisk, the Lachish reliefs, the Cyrus Cylinder — and what each one really establishes.

  • Sennacherib’s siege of Jerusalem, 701 BCE

    Two accounts of one campaign, written by the two sides, both surviving. They agree on the king, the cities, Lachish and the gold. They disagree on the silver and on how it ended — and the biblical text itself records…

  • Isaiah: when it was written, when it happened

    One book, two hundred years of history, and an authorship dispute this chart is built to display rather than to settle — including the Qumran scroll that is constantly cited for something it cannot show.

  • Isaiah

    Sixty-six chapters spanning two centuries, and the single most consequential authorship dispute in the Hebrew Bible — because at 45:1 the text names a Persian king by name.