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Originally Posted by spot
I'll enjoy seeing what you can dig up then. The archaeology of Palestine is fraught with an astonishing lack of coherence when compared with the biblical text, far more so than any other ancient near east civilizations.
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I don't think things that lack coherence need to be considered heavily, only those things which are coherent such as the location of death. An actual place of death, where an individual died, I think then lends to the credance of the individual itself. If I died, then I died, but if the place I died in exist, then that gives more credance to my death. Jesus died at the " Place of the Skull", or " Golgotha", and that place actually exist today, they found it. Its been unearthed. Its real, its geographic, its " Place and Thing."
Christ was recorded in Mark 15:22,27, 1Peter 2:24, to have been hung between two thieves at Golgotha. This place exist, we have it now, its real geographic, not imaginary myth. Before Jesus died, he prayed in the " Garden of Gethsemane", the actual place where he was betrayed by Judas, Matt.26:36-50. They have that place right now, it exist, its real. It fits the glove of history.
But other gloves fit as well, and I want to trace those imprints of history.
Peace.