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Biblical Archaeology and archaeological finds connected with Christianity and the history of Church.

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What is the significance of the eagle which Herod had put up over the door of the temple?

What is the significance of the eagle which Herod had put up over the door of the temple? Herod was a pawn in the hands of Rome and the eagle signified the Roman authority in the Palestine region. The …
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Was Mt. Sinai a volcano?

To this day, several sites have been proposed, but no one site has been confirmed by archaeology as the place where God met with Moses. … Maqlā, possibly identified as Jabal al-Lawz, is the real biblical Mount Sinai have been rejected by such scholars as James Karl Hoffmeier (Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology
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Why doesn't hallucination, common burial, legend, and gullibility explain the rise of Christ...

Why doesn't hallucination, common burial, legend, and gullibility explain the rise of Christianity (rather than the Resurrection)? How is this wrong? Two incidents can give a partial explication. I am …
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The "eye of the needle gate" today

The "eye of the needle gate" today? 23 And Jesus elooked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter gthe kingdom of God!” 24 And the disciples hwer …
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Are there any remains/fossils after Noah's flood?

Are there any remains/fossils after Noah's flood? Many believe that such discoveries exist. But the big question here is how to interpret the physical and biological finds. That is the biggest obstacl …
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Is the bonebox called the "James Ossuary" authentic? Is it truly the bonebox of James, the b...

The existence of the ossuary was announced at an October 21, 2002 Washington press conference co-hosted by the Discovery Channel and the Biblical Archaeology Society. … The Biblical Archaeology Review also continued to defend the ossuary. …
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Do the Roman catacombs confirm the early Church believed in the doctrine of the communion of...

Do the Roman catacombs confirm the early Church believed in the doctrine of the communion of saints? In the catacombs, sometimes rich or more well to do would leave some sort of memento at the tomb of …
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Is there any evidence in the Roman catacombs that the Early Church had a devotion to the Vir...

There seems to be little archeological evidence of any devotion of the Virgin Mary in the Early Church catacombs. But at the same token there may be glimmers of a Marian devotion amongst the faithful …
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Why is there no archaeological evidence that Christians existed for 200 years after 70 AD?

Why is there no archaeological evidence that Christians existed for 200 years after 70 AD? This is historically not true. To say there is no archaeological evidence that Christians existed for 200 ye …
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