We think the Bible and its story-line centred in Jesus is the most wonderful thing. We would love to help you enrich your appreciation of the Scriptures, whichever segment of this pie chart you happen to be in! Take a look at the course details below and come in and join us as you learn. Open…
The Dead Sea Scrolls contain manuscripts of at least part of every book of the Old Testament except the book of Esther. The stone jars with the ancient scrolls were found in 1947 at Qumran near the Dead Sea and they have provided an invaluable source of evidence for the basic accuracy of the Bible…
Little direct evidence is available for the Israelites being enslaved by the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt, but there is a wealth of what we might call circumstantial evidence. The Biblical account contains general background information about Egypt during the eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties of the Pharaohs, when Israel were enslaved. One well know part of…
During the time of Jesus’s preaching the Roman authorities operated a mint in Tyre which produced silver shekels of a very high purity (94 percent silver or more). These and half-shekels were the only coins accepted by the temple in Jerusalem. When Jesus needed to pay the temple tax, this was the coin that Jesus told…
The small stone inscription (or stele) in this picture is archaeological proof that King David was a real historical figure who founded a dynasty of kings in Israel, just as the Biblical history describes. The inscription on the stele is in Aramaic and describes the victories of the Syrians over the town of Dan and…
