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Bible prophecy checked against the historical record

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  • 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: The Minor Prophets

    Twelve questions on the Book of the Twelve, at three levels, with every answer explained: who wrote what, which book fixes its own earliest date, and which one gives an examiner nothing to work with.

  • 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.

  • Bible in a Year, with the record alongside

    All 1,189 chapters in 365 days, three or four a day, in canonical order — with a dozen days carrying a note on where the external record touches what you are about to read.

  • Bible Trivia: The Book of Daniel

    Twelve questions on the book at the centre of nearly every argument about biblical prophecy — the narratives, the visions, and the language it is written in.

  • Bible Trivia: Numbers and Dates

    Twelve questions on the figures, spans and counts the biblical text states outright — no arithmetic across passages, no calendar dates — at three levels, each with its verse.

  • The five verdicts, and what each one is refusing to say

    Every dossier on this site ends with one of five words. The scale exists because the alternative — a paragraph of qualified prose — lets a reader take away whichever half they arrived wanting. A verdict here is a claim…

  • How this site dates a text

    What a dating range is, what sets each of its limits, and why a contested date is reported as contested.

  • What “vaticinium ex eventu” means

    Prophecy written after the event: a claim about date of composition, not an accusation of forgery — and why it is hard to test.