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Drill, baby, drill: Noahโ€™s Ark, fundamentalism, and the search for evidence

The Durupฤฑnar site on the border between Tรผrkiye and Iran, showing the structure claimed to be Noah's Ark, in 2007. By Rod Benson According to the Book of Genesis, Noahโ€™s Ark once saved the worldโ€™s animals from extinction. Today, in the latest of many archaeological expeditions to the region, a dry sonic core drill is …

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On the historicity of the Book of Joshua

An early 4th-century AD manuscript of the Book of Joshua from Egypt, in Coptic script. The question of the historicity of the Book of Joshua is contested in contemporary biblical scholarship. It is also a problem for non-academic readers. Along with what to do about the conquest narratives, otherwise known as the Canaanite genocide, the …

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