Oct 30, 2022 08:47 PM
https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-biblica...ld-1755492
INTRO: A biblical account of an ancient Egyptian military campaign against Israel has been verified using a novel archaeological approach based on reconstructing the Earth's geomagnetic field from points in history thousands of years ago.
The research, which was published in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA), was also able to verify other Old Testament accounts of Aramean, Assyrian and Babylonian military campaigns against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Yoav Vaknin, a researcher from Tel Aviv University who is the lead author of the interdisciplinary study based on his doctoral thesis, said the aim of these investigations was to shed light on events described in the Hebrew Bible—an issue that is hotly debated among experts.
"This debate is relevant to discussions regarding the historicity of the biblical text," Vaknin told Newsweek... (MORE - details)
INTRO: A biblical account of an ancient Egyptian military campaign against Israel has been verified using a novel archaeological approach based on reconstructing the Earth's geomagnetic field from points in history thousands of years ago.
The research, which was published in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA), was also able to verify other Old Testament accounts of Aramean, Assyrian and Babylonian military campaigns against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Yoav Vaknin, a researcher from Tel Aviv University who is the lead author of the interdisciplinary study based on his doctoral thesis, said the aim of these investigations was to shed light on events described in the Hebrew Bible—an issue that is hotly debated among experts.
"This debate is relevant to discussions regarding the historicity of the biblical text," Vaknin told Newsweek... (MORE - details)
