For a full 100
years, American, British, French and German scientists conducted excavations in
the Middle East, Mesopotamia, Palestine and Egypt. In all major countries have established
institutions and schools engaged in such research. These breathtaking
discoveries, of which it is impossible to comprehend at once, have forced us to
reconsider our views on the Bible. Many of the events, first considered
"religious legends", acquired the status of historical facts.
Research results are often matched in detail with Biblical stories. Not only do
they support them, but also covered the historic ground, which increased the
Old Testament and the Gospel.
No
book in human history did not provide such a revolutionary impact, such a
decisive impact on the development of the Western world, such a broad response
to the world as "the book of books" - the Holy Bible. There is no
doubt that the long history of the triumphal procession of only gaining scale.
Is
it always right to the Bible? We can answer this question with regard to the
fragments, confirmed with non-biblical resources and data of archaeology. In
addition, the Bible in any case may qualify for another, more indirect form of
innocence: it somehow helps us better understand the thinking and behavior of
people past, their teachings, parables, allegories, allusions, symbols and
visions. Maybe sooner or later we will be able to understand even the fragments
that remain far vague and embarrassing us. And then we say that the Bible is
absolutely right!
Werner
Keller, from the book "Bible as
history".
NOTE: This book was published in 1955. Since then, archaeologists have found a huge amount of new evidence of the truth of the biblical narrative and no rebuttal.
