The Enemy of Biblical Critics - Archaeology

"Archaeology has over and over again proved to be the enemy of Biblical critics, unearthing their negative prejudices and confirming the accuracy of the Scriptures in historical particulars." ~ Dr. Greg Bahnsen

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"More and more the older view that the biblical data were suspect and even likely to be false, unless corroborated by extra-biblical facts, is giving way to one which holds that, by and large, the biblical accounts are more likely to be true than false..."
~H. M. Orlinsky
Ancient Israel (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1954), p. 6.

"After more than two centuries of facing the heaviest scientific guns that could be brought to bear, the Bible has survived - and is perhaps the better for the siege. Even on the critics' own terms - historical fact - the Scriptures seem more acceptable now than they did when the rationalists began the attack."
~"How True is the Bible?" Time magazine, December 30, 1974,

p. 41

"Archaeological and inscriptional data have established the historicity of innumerable passages and statements of the Old Testament"

~W.F. Albright

"Archeology Confronts Biblical Criticism," The American Scholar, vol. 7 (Spring, 1938), p. 41