Helpful Links and Resources

EXTERNAL EVIDENCE

• Seutonius- Twelve Caesars: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Seutonius/12Caesars/home.html

• The Burning of Rome: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/rome.htm

• Nero’s Persecution: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/christians.htm

• What To Do with the Christians: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/christianproblem.htm

• In chapter IX of his book “The Historical Jesus” Dr. Gary Habermas cites many “Ancient Non-Christian Sources” including Tacitus, Suetonius, Josephus, Thallus, Pliny the Younger, and other Jewish and non-Jewish sources. http://www.garyhabermas.com/books/historicaljesus/historicaljesus.htm#ch9

ARCHAEOLOGY

• Top Ten Biblical Archaeological Finds http://biblicalstudies.info/top10/schoville.htm

• Archaeology and the Bible: http://www.christiananswers.net/archaeology/

• Dr. Paul L. Maier’s article “Archaeology—Biblical Ally or Adversary?” http://www.equip.org/PDF/DA111.pdf

• Dr. Randall Price searches Mt. Ararat for Noah’s Ark. http://www.worldofthebible.com/news.htm

• Dr. Randall Price asks the question, “What if We Find Noah’s Ark?” http://www.worldofthebible.com/Arch_update.html

• Walter Pasedag, former Nuclear Engineer with the Department of Energy, asks ifChristian leaders have given up facts for faith? http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2005/08/21/Faith-Fact-and-Voltaire.aspx

• Dr. Frank Turek- the reliability of the New Testament:
  Pt. 1: http://www.leestrobel.com/videoserver/video.php?clip=strobelT2067
  Pt. 2: http://www.leestrobel.com/videoserver/video.php?clip=strobelT2068
  Pt. 3: http://www.leestrobel.com/videoserver/video.php?clip=strobelT2069

• Lee Strobel-Did Dan Brown lie about the Priori of Sion in The Da Vinci Code? http://www.leestrobel.com/videoserver/video.php?clip=CCNT1520

• Michael Licona “Is There Proof for the Historical Jesus?” http://www.leestrobel.com/videoserver/video.php?clip=strobelT1124

• Lee Strobel, Jerry Johnston- “Is the Bible reliable as a Historical Document?”: http://www.leestrobel.com/videoserver/video.php?clip=strobelT1142

The Dead Sea Scrolls

• The Essenes (believed to have written the Dead Sea Scrolls: http://www.handwritingfoundation.org/deadsea.htm

• Rylands’ collection: http://www.kchanson.com/ANCDOCS/greek/johnpap.html

• Daniel predates 155 BC: http://www.harvardhouse.com/Daniel_date-written.htm

• Daniel is prophetic- not historic: http://christianthinktank.com/qwhendan3x.html

• DNA on scroll fragments: http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=12&chapid=55

• Synchrotron: http://science.howstuffworks.com/synchrotron.htm

HISTORICAL RELIABILITY OF EYEWITNESS DOCUMENTS:

• Take Dr. Gary Habermas Historical Resurrection Quiz: http://www.garyhabermas.com/games/games.htm

WRITING THE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHS:

• How papyrus is made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FNtqAkzpuU

• 2 Timothy 4:13: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Timothy%204:13;&version=NIV;

• Dirty Jobs: Making Vellum & Parchment: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3965726/10762482

• Difference between Paper, Parchment & Vellum: http://www.archives.gov/preservation/formats/paper-vellum.html

• How Sumerians started writing: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/video/ancient_sumerians.html

• Writing before the alphabet: http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/video/3_history_writing.html

• Was the alphabet invented on Mt. Sinai? http://www.childrenofthecode.org/Tour/c5/bigbang.htm

• How the Church kept literacy alive in the Middle Ages: http://www.childrenofthecode.org/Tour/c5/viral.htm

• Scriptoria: http://christdesert.org/Monastic_Studies/Scriptoria/index.html

• The Sopherim: http://www.grmi.org/renewal/Richard_Riss/evidences/16trans.html

OLDEST NEW TESTAMENT MANUSCRIPTS

• Codex Sinaiticus: http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/codex/default.aspx

• Codex Vaticanus.: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04086a.htm

• Codex Alexandrinus: http://www.bible-researcher.com/codex-a.html

• Catholic Encyclopedia Article: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04080c.htm

• Partial New Testament papyri: http://www.biblefacts.org/history/oldtext.html

• The history of Modern Greek editions: http://www.gotquestions.org/Textus-Receptus.html

• A History of Human Writing: http://www.safde.org/hwhistory.pdf

• The Evolution of Uncial Text in Greek: http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/UncialScript.html

• Earlier date for the Gospels by William R. Bragstad. http://www.ctsfw.net/media/pdfs/bragstadoriginofthegospels.pdf

• Scanned images of old Bibles: http://www.bibles-online.net/.

Textual Criticism

• The reasons for variations between hand-copied manuscripts: http://www.bible-researcher.com/causes.html

• A simple description of http://www.irr.org/Bible-Reliable.html.

• Dr. Raymond F. Surburg describes http://www.ctsfw.net/media/pdfs/surburghistoricalgrammaticalmethod.pdf.

• Textual criticism evaluates the end of the Gospel of Mark: http://www.bible-researcher.com/endmark.html.

• Textual criticism evaluates the account of the adulterous woman in John 8: http://www.bible-researcher.com/adult.html.

Religions That Claim the Bible has been Corrupted

• This website (http://www.answering-christianity.com/contra.htm) presents a Muslim view of how the Bible has been corrupted.

• This website (http://www.givingananswer.org/articles/muslimviewofbible.html) uses Muslim texts to argue the Bible was not corrupted.

Mormonism:

• Initially, founder Joseph Smith believed the Bible was authentic as originally written. Later, he became convinced it suffered corruption by copyists, translators and transcribers. See http://wri.leaderu.com/mormonism/bible.html.

OUR HOST AND EXPERT’S WEBSITES:

• Craig Parton- International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism and Human Rights, Strasbourg, France: http://www.apologeticsacademy.eu/
  
  
• Dr. Paul Maier- http://www.wmich.edu/history/facultystaff/facultyprofiles/maier.html
  Tobias Communications: http://www.tobiascom.com/dr-paul-maier/about/
  
  
• Dr. Randall Price- World of the Bible:  http://www.worldofthebible.com/
  
  
• Joel Lampe- The Bible Museum in Goodyear, AZ: http://thebiblemuseum.com/