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105. Luke 3:36

Luke 3:36 has Cainan, who is in Genesis 11:13 LXX but not in MT. This is due to a copyist skip in the MT textual stream from “hundred years and fathered sons and daughters. And lived” to its next occurrence. The remaining Cainan data were removed as spurious.

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104. Pool of Bethesda

John wrote about a Bethesda pool with five porticoes. Excavations revealed a rectangular pool bounded by porticoes on four sides, with the fifth portico separating the upper and lower pools. The northern pool section was a reservoir, the southern a mikveh.

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103. Bible Antiquity

Pim weights were polished stones equal to about two-thirds of a shekel, and are mentioned in 1 Samuel 13:21. Archaeologists have discovered pim weights at many sites in Israel. The weight went out of use during the Monarchy period.

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102. Bible Antiquity

In the Nuzi tablets (1500 BC) the father-in-law was to give the bride a maid (Gen. 24:59), and the act of having children by proxy was a custom (Gen. 30:3). Also, the possession of household deities called teraphim implied headship of family (Gen. 31:19, 34).

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101. Early Testimony

According to Greek warning inscriptions and Josephus (Ant. 15.417; War 5.193-194; 6.125), a non-Jew entering the inner court of the Jerusalem temple would be in big trouble. The situation in Acts 21:27ff thus accurately reflects a time before 70 A.D.

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100. Molecular Machines

MO-1 is a magnetotactic bacterium which can orient itself along geomagnetic field lines and has a gear-driven seven-engine flagellar bundle for propulsion, which is a very different architecture compared to the flagellar rotary motor in E. coli.

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99. Biblical people in Inscriptions

The book of Nehemiah is dated 445-420 B.C. The “Gesham of Qedar Bowl” is dated 5th century B.C., and the Aramaic inscription on it reads: “…Gashmu, king of Qedar...” The variant spelling of Gashmu for Geshem is mentioned in Nehemiah 6:6.

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98. Biblical Texts: Papyri

The Elephantine papyri span the 5th-4th centuries B.C. A letter dated 407 B.C. mentions “Sanballat, the governor of Samaria,” who is written about in Nehemiah 2:10, etc. The writer of the book of Nehemiah must have lived at that time.

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97. Universe, Life: Reasoning from Effect to Cause

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96. Appearances of the Risen Jesus

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95. Correct Designations

In Acts 16:22 Luke gives the correct designation for the magistrates at Philippi as strategoi, following the general term archontes in v. 19. (Hemer, 115)

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93. New Testament People

There are at least thirty people in the New Testament that have been cited by non-Christian sources and/or confirmed by archaeology. The New Testament contains multiple independent accounts by nine different authors.

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92. New Testament Chain of Custody

The Chain of Custody from Peter (1 B.C.-64 A.D.)> Anianum (75 A.D.), Avilius (95 A.D.), Kedron (100 A.D.), Primus (115 A.D.), Justus (130 A.D.), Pantaenus (195 A.D.), Clement(A) (210 A.D.), Origin (250 A.D.).

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91. New Testament Chain of Custody

The Chain of Custody from Paul (6-67 A.D.)> Linus (70 A.D.), Clement(R) (95 A.D.), Evaristus (100 A.D.), Alexander (110 A.D.), Sixtus (120 A.D.), Telesphorus (130 A.D.), Hyginus (135 A.D.), Pius (150 A.D.), Justin Martyr (160 A.D.).

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90. James

In “Excavating the Evidence for Jesus,” Titus Kennedy discusses the significant evidence supporting the authenticity of the ossuary which has the inscription: Ya’akov bar Yosef akhui di Yeshua “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.” James was martyred in 62 A.D.

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89. Bible Text: Dead Sea Scrolls

Dead Sea Scroll 1QIsa(a) for Isaiah 53:11 reads: “After the suffering of his soul he will see light and be satisfied by his knowledge. The righteous one, my servant, will make many righteous, and he will bear their iniquities.”

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88. Eyewitness Testimony

1) The accounts of Matthew, Mark (Peter) and John vary, and this is a feature of all real multiple eyewitness accounts due to different perspectives. 2) The witnesses were present. 3) Their accounts are corroborated and 4) didn’t change. 5) No motives of greed, lust or power. They pass the reliable witness tests.

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87. The New Testament: Jesus

1) Jesus was crucified and buried. 2) A few days later the tomb was found empty. 3) The disciples believed they saw the risen Jesus. 4) The disciples were transformed following their observations.

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86. Early Testimony

1 Corinthians was written by Paul in 53-56 A.D. In 11:24b-25a he quotes Luke 22:19b-20a verbatim (see P46, P75): ...touto poieite eis ten emen anamnesin 25 hosautos kai to poterion meta to deipnesai legon touto to poterion he kaine diatheke...