Church and Biblical History

“Patrick was not, in fact, a nascent Baptist, but those who sought to claim him as one rightly noted the error of associating him with the modern Roman Catholic Church.” BPNews

How A 29-Year-Old G. K. Chesterton Flipped 4 Arguments Against Christianity Upside-Down

“Some of the items on the list relate broadly to the history of ancient Israel and its neighbors, but a few of them have more specific connections to the Bible.”

10. Beit Shemesh idol head 9. Horvat Kur Byzantine menorah mosaic 8. The site of Herod’s palace 7. Iron Age gate at Gath 6. Rare 3,000-Year-Old seal from Jerusalem found in Temple Mount sifted dirt 5. Eshba’al name found at Khirbet Qeiyafa… CT

“There are conflicting legends about the deaths of the twelve apostles, making the historical evidence difficult to interpret.” Twelve Apostles

“[T]his is the most ancient scroll from the five books of the Hebrew Bible to be found since the Dead Sea scrolls, most of which are ascribed to the end of the Second Temple period (first century BCE-first century CE)” Tablet

Master’s Seminary: The short answer is that baptisms in the Christian sense began with John. The Jews had the concept of purifying through water, and different groups practiced various forms of these ceremonial washings, but they were nothing like what John was doing.

“The Lower Aqueduct was originally built more than 2,000 years ago by kings in the Hasmonean dynasty, who ruled Judea and its surrounding regions from about 140 B.C. to 37 B.C., and preceded King Herod the Great.”