ARCHAEOLOGY
This 1947 discovery, considered the greatest archaeological find of the 20th century, included a complete scroll of Isaiah dated to around 300 BC.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
The New Testament has over 20,000 of these things, far exceeding any other ancient document.
What are manuscripts (or copies of the bible)?
Writers of the Jewish Talmuds who were Jesus' enemies explained that he was [blank] to explain away his miracles and signs.
What is demonic?
Critics claimed this empire was fabricated by Old Testament writers until archaeologists discovered it had indeed existed with a highly defined language.
What is the Hittite Empire?
Homer's Iliad has 643 manuscripts, but the New Testament has this many more, making it the most well-documented ancient text.
What is over 19,000 (or over 20,000 total)?
What would still be able to be mostly reconstructed from quotations by extra-biblical writers?
What is the New Testament?
The type of source the New Testament gospel are.
What is eye witness (historical accounts) testimony?
It had become fashionable in some academic circles to dismiss the David stories as an invention of priestly propagandists who were trying to dignify Israel’s past after the Babylonian exile until they found...
“House of David” inscription at Dan
The time gap (in years) that the New Testament was written till the earliest existent copy we have today.
What is 80 years
This Jewish-Roman historian wrote that Jesus was "a wise man" whose disciples "reported that he appeared to them three days after his crucifixion."
Who is Flavius Josephus?
Self-damaging evidence is often a sign of authenticity. Tim Keller argues that making [blank] the first witnesses of the resurrection was self-damaging because their testimony had this legal status in first-century society.
What is women?
These two discoveries verify New Testament figures: a stone inscription bearing the name of a Roman governor and the tomb of a Jewish high priest.
What are the Pilate Stone and Caiaphas' tomb?
The name of the theory that accused the bible for becoming embellished over time as stories are retold, but then refuted because of the time gap and number of copies that exists today.
What is "legendary accumulation”?
The writer that reported that even though the founder of their faith had died and Christians were tortured for their faith, it still spread through the city of rome.
Who is Cornelius Tacitus?
Professor at Oxford and Cambridge that said he is certain the New Testament are not legends.
Who is C.S. Lewis?
The chapter number in the Isaiah dead sea scrolls that contains prophecies of the specific details of Jesus’ life and death.
What is chapter 53?
This director of the British Museum and foremost authority on manuscript verification concluded the New Testament's "authenticity and general integrity may be regarded as finally established."
Who is Sir Frederic Kenyon?
Since ancient times adversaries of Christianity never doubted Jesus' historicity. Only at the end of this century did adversaries of Christianity start to attack this.
What is the 18th century?