The Bible in the British Museum

The Bible in the British Museum
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Publisher : Paulist Press
Total Pages : 142
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ISBN-10 : 0809142929
ISBN-13 : 9780809142927
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Book Synopsis The Bible in the British Museum by : T. C. Mitchell

Download or read book The Bible in the British Museum written by T. C. Mitchell and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The links between archaeology and the Bible have fascinated generations of scholars who seek documentation of events narrated in the Bible. The British Museum's collections include numerous inscriptions, pictorial reliefs and other objects which provide such evidence. For this book the author has selected seventy-two such 'documents, ' mainly from Western Asia, with some examples included from Greece, Egypt and Asia Minor, dating from the period of the patriarchs to the New Testament times, c. 2000 BC to c. AD 100. He transliterates and translates extracts from the ancient texts, which include cuneiform, Aramaic and Hebrew, and discusses the contribution they make to our knowledge of the culture and history of biblical times.


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