Archaeological "Evidence"

Joseph Crea Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net
Tue, 13 Jan 1998 02:25:36 +0000 (00884679936, 19980113022534.AAA4545@LOCALNAME)


Hello, Brian!

At 10:41 PM 1/12/98 +0000, you wrote:

>>TILL
>>Fuller didn't mention this challenge, so I will repeat it. Would he
>>like to see examples of biblical passages that are in conflict with
>>archaeological evidence? Is this a subject he would like to discuss?
>
>BRIDEAN
>This is a topic that I!!! would like to discuss if not Fuller.
>I would like to see examples of biblical passages that ARE in
>conflict with archaeological evidence. I don't personally know
>of any, but given what I have seen of the Bible so far, it would
>not surprise me if there ARE Biblical passages that fit this
>category. There seems to be a Biblical passages that fits any
>other category imaginable so why not this one?
CREA For starters, how about the question of the gate at Nain (Luke 7:11)-12)? According to Randel Helms in his __Gospel Fictions__, "...archaeological study has shown that the village of Nain in Galilee never had a wall..." and therefore couldn't have had a gate. With Mettaa, Joseph Crea <Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net>