The Bible in the British Museum: Interpreting the Evidence

Every purchase supports the British Museum The links between archaeology and the Bible have fascinated generations of archaeologists and biblical scholars who seek documentation of events narrated in the Bible The British Museum's collections include numerous inscribed objects, scripts and pictorial reliefs which provide such evidence There is, for example, a Babylonian clay tablet which records Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Jerusalem in 597 BC, as narrated in the book of Jeremiah For this book the author has selected over 70 such 'documents', mainly from western Asia, with some examples included from Greece, Egypt and Asia Minor, dating from the period of the Patriarchs to the New Testament times, c