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Old 08-April-2008, 01:53 PM
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...snip... Incidentally and apologies if this sales too close to the wind on the religion rules, but when I was doing a training course in Archaeology at the South Shields Roman Fort in North East England, I was told by a senior archaeologist, that archaeologists are not totally dismissive of the OT, as they consider it along with others, as one of a number of ancient texts (If I have quoted the person correctly)
Indeed.

Anyone who researches the history of archaeology would realize that aside from a handful of miracles and a few other events, the people, places and occurrences found in the bible are largely accurate.
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