53006.1 Endnotes Is the Bible’s Portrayal of People, Places and Events Accurate?

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Is the Bible’s Portrayal of People, Places and Events Accurate?

  1. Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (New York: Harper, 1988), 27.
  2. R.K. Harrison, Introduction to the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1969), 201.
  3. “The discovery of the codified Laws of Hammurabi (ca. 1700 B.C.), the Lipit-Ishtar code (ca. 1860 B.C.) the Laws of Eshnunna (ca. 1950 B.C,) and the even earlier Ur-Nammu code have refuted these claims.” Cited in Ken Boa & Larry Moody, I’m Glad You Asked (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1977), 97.
  4. Johnson, Ibid.
  5. http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/artifacts-and-the-bible/the-tel-dan-inscription-the-first-historical-evidence-of-the-king-david-bible-story/.
  6. http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-say-one-of-king-davids-palaces-found/.
  7. Paul Johnson, A Historian Looks at Jesus, speech to Dallas Seminary, 1986.