The Bible and Archaeology

alphabet ancient ANGELES antiquities appears archæological archæological research archæology Assyria Babylon Babylonian Bible Biblical Boghaz-keui British Museum CALIFORN Canaanite Carchemish century B.C. chapter character Chester Beatty Christian Codex Codex Sinaiticus containing Cretan Crete criticism cuneiform decipherment Diatessaron discovery Dynasty earlier earliest early Egypt Egyptian Enoch Epistles evidence excavations Exploration fragments Gospels Greek Hammurabi Hebrew Hezekiah hieroglyphic Hittite Hyksos important inscriptions Israel Israelites Jerusalem Judah king kingdom known Kuyunjik Lachish land later Layard letters LIBRARY literary literature Lord manuscript Mesopotamia millennium Minoan Mitanni monuments mound narrative Nineveh Nippur Old Testament original palace Palestine papyrus Pentateuch period Plate pottery probably prophets Rameses Rameses II Ras Shamra records reign Samaria scholars script sculptures second century Sennacherib Septuagint Sinaiticus stone story Sumerian Syria tablets Tell el-Amarna Tell Halaf temple thou tion tomb tradition translation type of text Ugarit unto Vaticanus wall writing written ziggurat