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Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project Volunteer Manual
$9.00Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project Volunteer Manual
by Steven Collins, with Carroll Kobs & Phillip J Silvia
Updated for Season Sixteen (2022), the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project Volunteer Manual is designed to provide current and potential volunteers with the latest information about the excavation project, preparing to travel to Jordan as a member of the team, and what to expect when you get there. Every volunteer member of the TeHEP excavation team, along with anyone interested in this exciting excavation project or archaeology in general, is encouraged to read it.
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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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