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This excerpt is the first four-and-a-half pages of Chapter Eleven (“King David Versus King Arthur”) of my book, The Word Set in Stone: How Archaeology, Excerpt about King David, from my book, "The Word Set in Stone: How Archaeology, Science, and History Back up the Bible" (Catholic Answers Press, 3-15-23).
+ Near Eastern Archaeological Periods and Timeline of the Patriarchs Introduction What we may call biblical archaeology flourished from the 1930s to the Introduction to Catholic apologist Dave Armstrong’s volume: The Word Set in Stone: How Archaeology, Science, and History Back up the Bible (Catholic Answers Press).
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There can be little doubt that many of the gospel stories are derived from the Jewish Scriptures: Jesus in the wilderness reworks the nation Israel’s and the prophet Elijah’s sojourn there; Jesus feeding the multitudes and raising the dead are surely inspired by comparable miracles by Elijah and Elisha and many more. What I find particularly interesting about this process is that the Jewish Scriptures themselves invite, or even entice, readers to undertake that very kind of rewriting we find in the gospels. Embedded in the narratives of the books from Genesis to 2 Kings are two types of r...