Independent Historical Corroboration for Biblical Events

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Originally posted by RedVento:
Actually I believe there was quite a bit of recorded knowledge from pre-christian times. However they were stored at the Library in Alexandria which was destroyed, supposedly buy an early christian.

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The Muslims had a whack at it as well. Much great literature and history were lost. It was a great crime. If it hadn't been destroyed its contents would have made those who are claiming so much for Christianity's history look like they had nothing at all.

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Originally posted by John:

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Originally posted by Me:
Sorry for the delay - I am finding that a contractor needs to work on occasions! I will be rather busy for the next week.

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Same here. Contractor are you? Moi aussi.

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Just a ref to the 'shoping-list' would be appreciated, if you can find one.

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I can't find the shopping list. However, I did find a couple of things that may interest you.

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Internet History Sourcebooks

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Internet History Sourcebooks

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The use of writing in a mundane manner like that would go a long way towards revising my views of Egyptian script. It is not a tribute list for an official, is it?

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As I remember it, it was a list found in the home/workplace of an artisan who probably worked on one of the pyramid projects. I can't remember which one.

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the first two of these stages depend strongly on the raw data - the latter two seem to depend more on the imagination! I have tried on occasions to go back to original paper or raw data, and found that in many cases the data was too sparse to support the theory. It agreed with it, but there are limits to what you can prove with a single fragment. What you often get is the archeologists beliefs - they may be accurate, we may want to believe them, but we are not talking about proof here.

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Can't argue with that. The field is cursed with very fragmentary data.

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Yes, what I've seen of the Dead Sea Scrolls released for public viewing have mainly been just fragments.