1. As you get closer and closer to modern times, there’s ________
corroborating evidence, ________ specificity in the evidence.
What is more corroborating?
What is more specificity?
6. From 1230 B.C. right up to the beginning of the Davidic monarchy, we see the number of small villages in the central hill country go up from 29 to [___] .
What is 254?
2. We think of David as the [ _______] figure in a child’s story, yet … he’s also a real figure in history.
Who is archetypal?
7. It’s the largest Iron Age structure in Israel, and most archaeologists … think this is clearly the [__________] .
What is the palace of David?
3. Every single part of [________] history has been challenged by
skeptics.
What is biblical?
8. With almost every discovery in archaeology, there are [___________].
What are controversies?
4. The minimalists insist that in 10th-century B.C. Judah, there’s little evidence of any permanent [________] , no urban centers, no capital, no temple, and no big building projects.
What is a population?
[__________] embarked on big building projects in key cities— Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
Who is Solomon?
5. Archaeology has provided some very compelling evidence for the reality of [_________] as an urban center.
Where is Jerusalem?
10. [__________] is perhaps the most hotly contested piece of land on the entire planet.
Where is Mount Moriah?