Genesis
Creation (Gen. 1-5)
Creationism is concerned with the study of the relationship between creation and natural science. For some, this means a "young earth": see http://www.answersingenesis.org. For others, the combination with an old earth is possible: http://www.reasons.org. Another site is www.scheppingofevolutie.nl The Logos Institute brings together all kinds of initiatives: www.logos.nl . In Germany: Wort und Wissen, Rosenbergweg 29, D-72270 Baiersbronn, http://www.wort-und-wissen.de. Significant progress has been made in recent years and also rejects overly simple representations from several decades ago.
Petersen: criticism of the (supposed) old worldview. http://www.hebrewcosmology.com/
McCabe: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P3RpD_e49cGV-DXANZnDqWdvCLJo7Z63/view
Gen.2
By vs.21 (rib of Adam):
https://answersingenesis.org/human-body/the-amazing-regenerating-rib/
http://creation.com/regenerating-ribs-adam-and-that-missing-rib.
Boyd: www.answersingenesis.org/arj/v7/temporal_reasoning_Genesis.pdf
Review Walton: https://answersingenesis.org/reviews/books/lost-world-adam-and-eve-response/
Gen.3
By vs.17-18 Catchpoole: http://creation.com/a-thorny-issue.
Gen.4
Wife of Cain: http://www.christiananswers.net/dutch/q-aig/aig-c004-nl.html
Barrick: https://www.academia.edu/1368769/Conscience_Oral_Tradition_Natural_Religion_or_Later_Insertion_Unwritten_Revelation_in_Genesis_1-11
The ark and the flood (Gen. 6-9)
John Woodmorappe, Noah's Ark: a feasibility study, Santee, CA 1996 addresses the many biological and physical questions raised by the description in Genesis. This study was published by the Institute for Creation Research (www.icr.org). There have been many expeditions in search of the ark on Mount Ararat and the searches continue. See the websites www.noahsarksearch.com and www.arcimaging.org.
Myths and legends in the Ancient Near East (Gen. 1-11)
Those interested in learning more about Gilgamesh, Adapa and about archaeology in general in the Middle East should visit: http://www.ot-studies.com.
Deluge legends http://www.nwcreation.net/noahlegends.html
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Gen. 11-36)
The routes taken by the patriarchs can be seen in this atlas.
Gen. 12
Ur of the Chaldeans: Barrick: http://www.tms.edu/m/tmsj20a.pdf
Gen. 16
'The Identity of the Angel of the LORD', Hiphil 4 (2007)
http://www.see-j.net/index.php/hiphil/issue/view/5.
Gen. 22
Hethites: http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2011/11/08/Hittites-and-Hethites-A-Proposed-Solution-to-an-Etymological-Conundrum.aspx
Machpela near Hebron (Gen. 23)
Information about the structure above the presumed cavern of Machpela.
Gen. 30
vs.14 Alruin: http://www.bijbelaantekeningen.nl/files/subjrefr?837
vs.32 Raising the sheep: https://www.scienceandchristianbelief.org/serve_pdf_free.php?filename=SCB+13-1+Pearson.pdf
Joseph in Egypt (Gen. 37-50)
The following English-language sites offer much general archaeological information about Egypt: http://www.eternalegypt.org/EternalEgyptWebsiteWeb/HomeServlet?ee_website_action_key=action.display.splash&ee_messages=0001.clientrequired.text
Gen.49
vs.13 Zebulun by the seashore:
http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2018/07/18/Zebulun-by-the-Sea-Zebuluns-Mysterious-Borders.aspx
Exodus
The Exodus (Ex. 1-12)
Many clues to the historicity of the exodus can be found at: http://www.bibleandscience.com/archaeology/exodus.htm
The Associates for Biblical Research foundation in America advocates a dating of the exodus around 1440 B.C. See: http://www.biblearchaeology.org/
The Bible, History and Archaeology Foundation in Kampen assumes that the exodus took place around 1400 B.C. See http://www.bga1.nl.
Both Christian organizations thus distance themselves from the view that the exodus was in the time of Pharaoh Ramses II, in the 12e century.
The name YHWH (Ex. 3)
http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2010/03/08/The-Name-Yahweh-in-Egyptian-Hieroglyphic-Texts.aspx#Article
Baking clay bricks (Ex. 5)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/manna4u/32513653582
https://www.osirisnet.net/tombes/nobles/rekhmire100/e_rekhmire100_07.htm
The Passover (Ex. 12:1-28)
The Passover as the Samaritans still celebrate it, including the slaughter of lambs:
https://www.bibleplaces.com/samaritan-passover/
The route to Mount Sinai (Ex. 13-19)
In recent years, more and more popular science books have appeared claiming that Mount Sinai is not in the present peninsula of that name, but in present-day Arabia, and could be, for example, Mount Jebel al-Lawz. A general overview of theories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Mount_Sinai
A dismissive review was given by Gordon Franz. His article can be read at http://www.ldolphin.org/franz-sinai.html.
C.J. Humphreys defends a southern mountain in Midian (present-day Arabia): http://books.google.com/books?id=0RF42cryB48C&dq=THE+MIRACLES&ie=ISO-8859-1&source=gbs_gdata
Mount Badr / Bedr is located in the Al Jaw area. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hala-'l_Badr
The covenant making and legislation at Sinai (Ex. 19-24)
Around 1900, the law book of Hammurabi was found and published. This king lived in the 18e century B.C. and many of his laws resemble the civil provisions in Ex. 21-23. See: http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/221ham.html.
The tabernacle (Ex. 25-40)
The Biblical Museum in Amsterdam has a model of the tabernacle.
The following site from Israel provides fine photos of the model of the tabernacle (full size) on display in Timna, just north of Eilat. Also included are links of other models. http://www.bibleplaces.com/tabernacle.htm.
The following American site also provides nice illustrations. In addition to its own interpretation of the Gnostic-oriented New Church (E. Swedenborg), the other mainstream interpretive traditions are also listed. http://www.glencairnmuseum.org/ancient-near-east-collection.
The following site gathers many links about the tabernacle:
http://www.ebibleteacher.com/3DTaber/3DTaberLinks.html.
Today's Temple Institute in Jerusalem is preparing to build the third temple. At http://www.templeinstitute.org/articles.htm is a lot to read about this.
The Jewish Encyclopedia provides a different image of the tabernacle. See the article "tabernacle" at http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/
Construction and calculations: http://www.bijbelaantekeningen.nl/blog/tag/tabernakel/
Ex. 25 - Menorah
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/temple-at-jerusalem/understanding-the-jewish-menorah/
Ex. 28 - Priestly garments
https://templeinstitute.org/priestly-garments/
Excursion 1 'Chronology'
Sewell, Curt, "Biblical Chronology and Dating of the Early Bible.
http://www.ldolphin.org/sewell/sewellchron.html
On Egyptian chronology: http://creation.com/egypt-chronology
On the dating of Abraham: https://answersingenesis.org/bible-timeline/abraham-and-the-chronology-of-ancient-mesopotamia/
Collection of websites: http://users.actrix.co.nz/da.astwood/ChronologyLinks.html
Early history of Egypt: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-23947820
Excursion 2 'Genesis 1-11 and the lore'
Global stories of the great flood: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html and https://floodstories.wordpress.com/
Comparison Bible and Gilgamesh epic: http://creation.com/comparative-study-of-gilgamesh-and-genesis-introduction
Value of the saros: http://custance.org/Library/SOTW/APPENDIXES/APP_II_VI.html
Excursion 4 'Sodom and Gomorrah'
http://blog.bibleplaces.com/2015/10/sodomagain-another-geographical-issue.html
Exhibit 8, "Family Structure.
http://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/bed/view.cgi?number=T251
Excurs 12, "Israel in Goshen (Avaris),
ABR website: http://www.biblearchaeology.org
Website excavations Avaris: http://www.auaris.at/html/history_en.html
Possible image of Joseph: http://www.british-israel.ca/statue_of_joseph_found.htm and https://www.egofelix.com/how-was-the-joseph-statue-reconstructed/
Wilson-Wright, Aren M., 'Hebrew or Not? Reviewing the Linguistic Claims of Douglas Petrovich's The World's Oldest Alphabet' (2017),
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/2017/07/wil418006
Wright, Ted, "A Review of Patterns of Evidence: Exodus. http://crossexamined.org/review-patterns-evidence-exodus/
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