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A gang of goons, acting on the authority of King Zedekiah of Judah, threw the prophet Jeremiah into a pit.
Two of them were Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Gedaliah son of Pashur.
Both men have been historically corroborated through the archaeological discovery of clay seal impressions dated to the sixth century B.C. bearing their names.
And that’s me, below, in the actual pit into which Jeremiah was tossed. Debbie my wife took his short video of me in Jerusalem earlier this year.
But how did Jeremiah survive?
“Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs of the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon…” (Jeremiah 38:7)
So the king’s own men put Jeremiah in there, but a low-ranking Ethiopian decided to take matters into his own hands.
Ebed-melech approached the king—a daunting task that involved great personal risk—and remarkably got permission to get Jeremiah out.
It took 30 men to pull Jeremiah out since he was trapped in the caked mud at the ...
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In the late 19th century the German explorer Heinrich Schliemann set out to discover ancient Troy.
Until that time Troy was considered by most scholars to be a mythical place, and the Trojan War a legend entwined with Greek mythology.
Schliemann worked with Homer in one hand and his archaeological tools in the other, searching for clues in “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” for real geographical locations.
And he found Troy!
Today scholars accept that Troy was located at Hisarlik in northwestern Turkey.
Schliemann even found precious objects that he dubbed the “treasures of King Priam” although some of these date to before the time of the Trojan War.
Schliemann demonstrated that the Homeric narratives were grounded in real places and a Late Bronze Age world.
Biblical archaeology works in much the same way, with the Bible offering a roadmap to real places and real events.
And as at Troy, in the end the stones have the last word.
My new book “The Stones Cry Out” reveals the greatest...
What’s the significance of a huge 25 ton ritual bath dated to the time of Jesus and lifted virtually intact out of the ground in Israel? I discuss this topic with Fox News.
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/massive-2000-year-old-discovery-time-jesus-emerges-remarkably-intact
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