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Tall el-Hammam is Not Sodom
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Tall el-Hammam Is Sodom: Billington’s Heshbon Identification Suffers from Numerous Fatal Flaws
$2.50Tall el-Hammam Is Sodom: Billington’s Heshbon Identification Suffers from Numerous Fatal Flaws
by Steven Collins PhD
In this article, S. Collins responds to an article by C.E. Billington published in the Spring 2012 issue of Artifax magazine titled “Tall el-Hammam is Not Sodom.” Billington rejects Collins’ identification of Tall el-Hammam as Sodom because the date of its destruction is too late (between 1750 and 1650 BCE) to conform to Billington’s early placement of Abr(ah)am, ca. 2166-1991 BCE. He also attempts to support a more southern location for Sodom via textual geography. Finally, Billington suggests that Tall el- Hammam is perhaps a ‘western’ Heshbon. Collins refutes these ideas as categorically untenable.
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Tall el-Hammam Is Still Sodom: Critical Data-Sets Cast Serious Doubt on E.H. Merrill’s Chronological Analysis
$2.50Tall el-Hammam Is Still Sodom: Critical Data-Sets Cast Serious Doubt on E.H. Merrill’s Chronological Analysis
by Steven Collins PhD
In this article, S. Collins responds to an article by E.H. Merrill published in the Autumn 2012 issue of Artifax magazine titled Texts, Talls, and Old Testament Chronology: Tall el-Hammam as a Case Study.” Merrill rejects Collins identification of Tall el-Hammam as Sodom because the date of its destruction is too late (between 1750 and 1650 BCE) to conform to Merrill s early placement of Abr(ah)am, ca. 2166- 1991 BCE. While Merrill takes a literal, base-10, arithmetic approach to the patriarchal numbers in Gene- sis, Collins suggests that every available line of evidence from ANE archaeology, history, culture, litera- ture, climatology, and socio-economics demonstrates that the patriarchs fit best in the period following 1800 BCE, which also conforms to the terminal MB2 destruction of Hammam/Sodom.
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Terms of Distruction of the Cities of the Plain
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Testing the Factuality of the Conquest of Ai Narrative in the Book of Joshua
$2.50Testing the Factuality of the Conquest of Ai Narrative in the Book of Joshua
by Peter Briggs
Summary of the problem. The gamut of views concerning the conquest of Ai narrative in the 7th and 8th chapters of the Book of Joshua can be summarized as follows: the narrative is factual, having the weight of eye witness testimony; or, it is an aetiological legend, compiled long after the fact, either just before or during the Babylonian exile for the purpose of justifying Israel’s presence in the land of Canaan; or, it is a pernicious myth, deceptively and skillfully fabricated to correspond with the material time-space context in which it is alleged to have occurred. Is there a method that is capable of objectively arbitrating among these three views?
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The Architecture of Sodom
$2.50The Architecture of Sodom
by Steven Collins PhD
If Sodom existed, then was destroyed, during the Middle Bronze Age, then something of its architecture can be known by comparing statements from the text with known standard features of typical MBA cities.
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The Bible, History, and Objectivity
$2.50The Bible, History, and Objectivity
by Steven Collins PhD
God’s representation of reality, the Bible, has been given for the purpose of allowing us to see what mere human observers cannot: the hand of God in the whirlwind.
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The Defendable Faith
$25.00The Defendable Faith
by Steven Collins PhD
The Defendable Faith is a reader-friendly apologetic source presented in way that is understandable and able to be enjoyed by all. Yet, it has been used as an effective college and seminary textbook. The material is clear, concise, and relevant to anyone seeking to develop and defend a biblical worldview. This is one of the best books available on Christian apologetics, written by an experienced and respected archaeologist and biblical scholar. It is a must-read.
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The Demographics of Ancient Israel
$2.50The Demographics of Ancient Israel
by David M. Fouts
It is the purpose of this paper to examine the archaeological data that contribute to the understanding of population demographics for ancient Israel from the earliest periods until the first century A.D. It will be demonstrated herein that, given the data that we now possess, at no time in the ancient history of the land of Palestine would there have been more than 1,000,000 inhabitants.
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The Destruction of Sodom (B&W)
$19.95The Destruction of Sodom (B&W)
by Phillip J. Silvia PhD
Dr. Phillip J. Silvia presents, for the first time, a summary of his research into the existence and demise the Middle Bronze Age civilization that once occupied the Middle Ghor (MG), the circular plain north of the Dead Sea. In this book he provides a compelling explanation of the correspondence between the physical evidence from the MG and the narrative description of Sodom’s destruction found in Genesis (not to mention numerous later descriptions of the event found in the Qur’an that provides its ‘take’ on the biblical language). This research is far from over…
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The Destruction of Sodom (full color)
$24.99The Destruction of Sodom (full color)
by Phillip J. Silvia PhD
Dr. Phillip J. Silvia presents, for the first time, a summary of his research into the existence and demise the Middle Bronze Age civilization that once occupied the Middle Ghor (MG), the circular plain north of the Dead Sea. In this book he provides a compelling explanation of the correspondence between the physical evidence from the MG and the narrative description of Sodom’s destruction found in Genesis (not to mention numerous later descriptions of the event found in the Qur’an that provides its ‘take’ on the biblical language). This research is far from over…
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The Geography of Sodom and Zoar
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The Geography of the Cities of the Plain
$2.50The Geography of the Cities of the Plain
by Steven Collins PhD
Tradition seems to provide the only support for a southern Dead Sea location for the Genesis Cities of the Plain. The biblical text clearly supports their location north of the Dead Sea, on the east side of the Jordan River, in a circular, alluvial area known in the Old Testament, particularly in Genesis, as the Kikkar. This paper provides a detailed textual analysis of this geography.
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The Geography of the Cities of the Plain
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The Heart’s Door
$9.95The Heart’s Door
by Latayne C. Scott PhD
This book is a study guide for understanding the biblical view of hospitality. This is not hospitality as the world views it, which is dinner parties and “hostess with the mostest.” The biblical view focuses on joyfully and lovingly opening up your home to guests who don’t care if you’re wearing blue jeans and serving sandwiches.
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The Home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites: Is Yahweh’s Promise a Significant Historical Synchronism?
$2.50The Home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites: Is Yahweh’s Promise a Significant Historical Synchronism?
by Steven Collins PhD
It was an Egyptian-less land with a significant Hittite presence that Yahweh promised to deliver into Israelite hands, and this scenario fits uniquely into a rather narrow time-slot during the 14th century BCE.
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The Home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites: Is Yahweh’s Promise a Significant Historical Synchronism?
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The Kikkar Dialogues
$22.00The Kikkar Dialogues
by Dr Steven Collins PhD
The Kikkar Dialogues is the second title to be released in the new Research & Discovery Series by TSU Press. This book presents a record of the dialogues between Dr. Steven Collins and other archaeologists, scholars and the critics of his identification of Tall el-Hammam as Sodom.
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The Length of the Israelite Sojourn in Egypt
$2.50The Length of the Israelite Sojourn in Egypt
by Steven Collins PhD
If one adopts the short sojourn scenario (Jacob to Moses is approximately 215 years), then numerous conclusions about biblical chronology and its correspondence with ancient Near Eastern history and archaeology, which are based on a 430-year Israelite sojourn in Egypt, must be abandoned.
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The Logic of True Narrative Representations
$2.50The Logic of True Narrative Representations
by John W. Oller, Jr. and Steven Collins PhD
This paper proves that TNRs are the only representations that are (1) relatively determinate with respect to their embodied meanings, (2) well-connected to the matter-space-time continuum, and (3) fully generalizable to all possible contexts (real or imagined) with respect to their relatively well-determined content. It follows that if the Bible is a TNR, then the genuine facts of history cannot contradict it, nor it them. If TNR-theory is correct, it is possible, as a result, to set subjects such as hermeneutics and biblical archaeology on a strictly logical footing.
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The Middle Bronze Age Civilization-Ending Destruction of the Middle Ghor
$59.95The Middle Bronze Age Civilization-Ending Destruction of the Middle Ghor
Doctoral Dissertation by Phillip J. Silvia PhD
This volume is a reformatted printing of the Ph.D. dissertation of Phillip James Silvia for Trinity Southwest University in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is a scientific study of the occupation history of the Middle Ghor, the nearly circular plain that lies just north of the Dead Sea in the Great Rift Valley. This study documents the existence of a major urban center (Tall el-Hammam) from the Chalcolithic Period through Middle Bronze Age (roughly 4600 to 1650 BCE) and significant human presence distributed across multiple nearby sites that came to a sudden and violent end, leaving the area unoccupied for 600-700 years. Evidence is presented to support the author’s hypotheses that the source of destruction was a meteoritic airburst event, and that the cause of the extended occupational hiatus was depletion of the topsoil and poisoning of the remaining subsoil with Dead Sea salts by the airburst. Although it was not the author’s purpose in presenting this data to defend the Biblical story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities of the plain, the evidence, analyses and conclusions presented in this volume clearly support the claim of Dr. Steven Collins that Tall el-Hammam is Sodom.
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The Noah Flood Account
$59.95The Noah Flood Account
by John G Leslie
Hundreds of works dealing with Noah’s flood have appeared over the last century. This present volume by Dr John Leslie, however, rises to the top. While the physical evidences presented in The Noah Flood Account as a True Narrative Representation appear in other resources, the outstanding and unique feature of Dr. Leslie’s book is the examination of the subject using the TNR (true narrative representation) theory of Dr. John Oller, revealing that the biblical flood story possesses all the characteristics of a TNR: determinancy, connectedness, and generalizability. Ollerian TNR linguistic theory is based on incontrovertible logic, and has the analytic capacity to assess the differences between TNRs, fictions, and lies. In his application of TNR theory, Dr. Leslie has powerfully argued that the Noah narrative arose from the physical reality of the event itself in remote antiquity. Linguistically, the Noah flood account is not fiction. This is a quantum leap for those continuing to explore the subject!
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The Parables of Jesus
$9.95The Parables of Jesus
by Latayne C. Scott PhD
Award-winning author Latayne C. Scott examines some of Jesus’s most compelling teachings. On one level, the parables of Jesus seem like simple stories. But like diamond mines, like mirrors, they reveal hidden insights about how to be an authentic Christian and the strength to do it daily. This book contains daily readings, interactive group and individual exercises, and helps for leaders.
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The Search for Sodom and Gomorrah
$14.00The Search for Sodom and Gomorrah
The Search for Sodom and Gomorrah is the first title to be released in the new Research & Discovery Series by TSU Press. In this book you will find a valuable collection of the geographical, chronological, and archaeological research leading to the discovery of the infamous Cities of the Plain, and the ongoing explorations and excavations led by Dr. Collins and his American/Jordanian team of archaeologists and experts.
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