Special Announcement:
Logos Research Associates (LRA) is producing a great creation science video series with presentations by the top PhD scientists in creation science today. These are highly recommended! The first four are now available on YouTube:
Darwin Was Wrong by Dr John Sanford, geneticist
Fossil Proteins from Four Continents Dr. Brian Thomas, paleo-biology
Monkey Business in the Chimp Genome Dr Jeffrey Tomkins, geneticist
The Rocks (Still) Cry Out: Evidence for Biblical Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Also an excellent 5 min summary Dr. John Baumgardner, geophysicist
Geologist, Dr. Tim Clarey will be up soon.
July 6, GHCA meeting and webinar, 7 pm
New Archeological Evidence Before the Exodus: in 5 parts.
Part 3: Ephraim and Manasseh in Egypt
By: Dr. Douglas Petrovich, PhD Syro-Palestinian Archaeology
Parts 1 -5 topics: 5/4 Tower of Babel (ca. 2650 BC) 6/1 Joseph and Jacob in Egypt (ca. 1875–1859 BC) 7/6 Ephraim and Manasseh in Egypt (ca. 1858–1800 BC) 8/3 Hebrew as the first alphabet (ca. 1875–1446 BC) 9/7 Israelites in Egypt before the exodus (ca. 1560–1446 BC)
In the third lecture coming up for July 6th at 7 pm, we will see evidence of the roles of Ephraim and Manasseh after they inherited the leadership of the Hebrew clan in Avaris. They soon became very rich and influential. Apparently Ephraim managed the lucrative wine trade in Avaris while big brother Manasseh managed the mines in the Sinai deserts. There is some really fascinating evidence for all of this and much more. Plan on attending in person or online. For location and registration see the sidebar to the right. Registration is below.
Many are missing Dr. Petrovich’s passion and depth of knowledge we have not seen before.
Dr. Douglas Petrovich is on of a small group of trained archaeologist with a commitment to the accuracy of the Bible who have recognized that the evidence related to sites in the Holy Land from the biblical period fits biblical history and chronology well. This is especially true after mistakes made by archaeologists in the 20th century are corrected. For more on this please read the, ”Introduction to the State of Biblical Archaeology” by Dr. Petrovich below.
Introduction to the State of Biblical Archaeology
In the 1930s, an American archaeologist named William Albright permanently changed what the perceived relationship is between biblical history and archaeological evidence. Whereas before him people held strongly to how the archaeological evidence should defer to the constraints of biblical chronology and a careful study of the biblical text in the original languages, his methodology was to elevate the archaeological finds to a position over how the Bible is to be understood and interpreted on its own terms, with a willingness to remove these constraints.
Albright used evidence from the destructions of minimally important sites in the Holy Land at the end of the Late Bronze Age (about 1200 BC) and their subsequent reoccupation sometime later by Israelites of the Iron Age (after 1200 BC) to deny that the Israelite conquest of Canaan took place at the end of the 15th century BC, as biblical chronology requires (1 Kgs 6:1; Josh 5:6). Instead, he demanded that the conquest occurred in the 13th century BC, which established a position usually called the late exodus/conquest view.
Cecil B. DeMille popularized this new view in his film The Ten Commandments, as he referred to the exodus pharaoh as Ramesses, a line of Egyptian kings that began in 1290 BC. This new view subtly undermined the belief in the minds of many Christians that the Bible’s history should take precedence over the interpretation of artifacts and evidence extracted from archaeological excavations. In the 1950s, Kathleen Kenyon went even further, ignoring the evidence excavated at Jericho that lends to a destruction of the city at the end of the 15th century BC, a timeframe that biblical chronology demands, and interpreting other evidence at the site to justify a redating of its destruction to a time over 150 years earlier.
From then until now, the consensus view among archaeologists and critical biblical scholars is that the Bible is out of step with the evidence dug up from the ground. For example, the majority have become convinced that there is little evidence of the biblical narratives of King David, and even less regarding earlier periods in biblical history. Skeptics who have followed in the steps of Kenyon strongly have preferred the conclusion that the Bible is progressively more mythological at virtually any period earlier than the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Since then, a few trained archaeologists with a commitment to the accuracy of the Bible have recognized that the evidence related to sites in the Holy Land from the biblical period fits biblical history and chronology well. For example, Bryant Wood concluded in the early 1990s that much of what was found at Jericho matches the Bible, despite Kenyon’s misdating of the city’s destruction, and his presentation of the evidence has proven to be highly persuasive.
It was onto this scene that Dr. Petrovich made his entrance and soon started discovering a substantial body of evidence that affirms biblical history and chronology, such as the events surrounding the Tower of Babel and the Hebrew sojourn in Egypt before the exodus. The potential impact is huge, although too few people are currently aware of the new evidence. The ongoing progress of this work should prove to be of great interest to the Christian community in general.
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