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Bible prophecy checked against the historical record

Major Prophets

  • Bible Trivia: Jerusalem

    Twelve questions on Jerusalem: who took it and when, why 597 BCE is a date and 587 is a dispute, and what the ground can and cannot tell us about the temple.

  • 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.

  • Who wrote Daniel, and when

    Two dates four centuries apart, and almost everything anyone believes about biblical prophecy depends on which is right. Both cases at their strongest, and the two external facts that cut in opposite directions.

  • The Neo-Babylonian decades, 626–539 BCE

    Eighty-seven years, from the revolt that founded the Neo-Babylonian empire to the night it ended — with the biblical texts placed beside the events, so the gap between the two bands is visible.

  • Bible Trivia: Which Prophet Wrote What

    Twelve questions on the prophets — which of them left a book and which did not, what each was told to do, and which vision belongs to whom.

  • Lamentations

    Five poems, four of them acrostics, the third a triple acrostic and the fifth twenty-two lines without the alphabet. The form is the argument.

  • Bible Trivia: The Prophets

    Twelve questions across the prophetic books — who spoke to whom, about what, and where each book opens. The entry point to every dossier on this site.