For PERSPECTIVES Vol. 6 No. 2 [April-June 2003]
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Information Vacuum
I am a student at Florida State University, for one of my classes I have to evaluate different websites and how they are applicable to study of the Old Testament. One of the points of the evaluation is the source or author of the website. As I have been looking around BibArch I have noticed that it isn't written anywhere who authored and maintains the website. Also, there are no credentials about such an author. I found it difficult to even find a place like this where I would be able to email someone. I just wondered if you could pass on any of this information to me. It might be a good idea to start including such things as authorship, who maintains the site, and credentials, as well as an express purpose of the website, in the future.
−Katherine McIntyre
We may have had a temporary server problem. We use a FrontPage server in southern California and occasionally the menu fails due to corruptions. Normally you can use the menu to read about authorship, our purpose, and credentials.
�Editor
Crossing Over from BCE to CE
I am sure you receive many e-mails with questions and cannot respond to all but I hope you can find the time to answer a puzzling question for me. I came across a statement you made in your thesis on the decrees of Artaxerxes (see The Decree of Artaxerxes: Is It a Key to the Date of the Crucifixion?). You stated that Yamauchi, Halley and others made mistakes in their chronology by not adding one more year for year 0 when crossing over from B.C. to A.D.. I am kind of an amateur chronologist. I have made charts and tables of chronology for years for my own personal study. Chronology is fascinating to me. But your statement through my thought process for a loop. Ernest Martin, Finegan, Newton, Ussher, Nolen Jones, Donald Wiseman and others all subtract the 0 from the crossover of B.C. to A.D. I am sure you have a solid reason for adding the zero. I am definitely interested in knowing why. Maybe you have expounded on this in another area and I just haven�t came across the article. If you could answer my question I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you and God bless.
�Michael Sutton
In crossing from BCE to CE, or visa versa, one must correct for there being no year 0. The formula is: Date CE = [Period of Years From the BCE Date] +1 - [Date BCE]. In this case the date CE = 483+1-457 = 27. So the correct date is CE 27 not 26. The correction has been made and Yamauchi and Halley are still wrong because they did not made a correction.
�Editor
Search Engine Not Working
Tried to do a search on Peter or David .... got this reply ....can you fix it?
Error from search: can't open the word hash file e:\web\b\bibarc\_vti_txt\default.wti\All.dct
No documents found. Please try again.
−Anonymous
BibArch runs on a FrontPage server. For some reason Microsoft FrontPage gets its server extensions corrupted constantly. This appears to be a flaw in their system. It takes four hours to go through the procedure of reinstalling the website so that the search engine will work. As you asked us to do this we restored it. It is working right now. How long it will we do not know. Good hunting!
�Editor
Touring Israel
We're planning to visit Israel and we're hoping to find a tour we can join (there are just 2 of us) of one or more archeological sites with a tour guide who can explain what we're seeing. I'm having a hard time finding this information on the internet. Any information you can give me would be greatly appreciated.
�Carole Lax
You will probably be able to book sightseeing tours when you get there. However, I suggest you take a look at the tour options listed in Fodor's Israel. You can order from Amazon.com or a local bookstore like Barnes & Noble.
--Editor
Our Website
I stumbled across your website while putting together worksheets for Bible study. I'm a former anthropology student & have always been interested in archaeology. I love the way your site is designed; it makes it very easy to find stuff I've been looking for. I only wish this had been around when I was still at university and debating my profs over apes, bones & evolutionary theory. My days in the hallowed halls of anthropology departments led me to seek more ways to counter my professors & confirm my beliefs. I just wanted to say thanks for maintaining such a great site, and I know I'll keep checking back for new stuff.
"Coolwaittillitelltheguys!!"
�Ronya FMT
Mount Sinai
I would like to suggest a link to www.harkarkom.com for inclusion in your Useful Links page. The site includes in full Prof. Emmanuel Anati's latest book about 20 years of archaeological research at Mount Karkom in the Negev desert (Israel), including the reasons why this most probably is the biblical Mount Sinai.
�Michael
The link now appears on the links page.
--Editor
Marvin Rosenthal
Just a little note of spelling correction. I'm usually the last person that would correct anyone's spelling because way back in third grade I won a spelling be. It went to my head and it's been down hill ever since. On http://www.bibarch.com/Biographs/Con-temporary/Rosenthal-Marvin%20J.htm , in the second paragraph, the word "know" in "A nationally know Bible teacher" should be "known". Tonight our Bible study meeting is with Marvin Rosenthal at The Holy Land Experience. I look forward each week to God Word and Marv's spirit filled interpretation. God Bless you and God Bless America.
�Charlie Barta
We hope you enjoyed The Holy Land Experience. We suggest a visit by all the people of God visiting the Orlando area. The word known was keyed in wrong. We appreciate you pointing it out. We think you meant spelling bee though.
--Editor
The Genealogy of Jesus
I am a Christian who subscribes to the same general belief system given on your site, and have found the information you supply to be extremely informative and objective. Recently I have been browsing documents written by non believers in hopes to add an element of challenge to my justification of the scriptures. As a result of this I have found a document which seems very well constructed, and I am quite frankly stumped as to how certain arguments can be refuted. I am wondering if you have seen this before?
If so, are you aware of any writers who have dealt with these specific apparent contradictions, or perhaps you could make quick work of them? I have been able to combat several, but certain points such as the differences in Jesus' genealogy seem difficult to reconcile. Please tell me what you think, as I have yet to find a site as unbiased as your own.
�Timothy S. Green
Matthew's gospel records the legal genealogy, written when the church was made up of people of primarily Jewish descent, through Joseph. Luke's gospel, written to a church from a more gentile point of view, contains the physical genealogy through Mary's father Heli. The English "son of" is in the sense of "descendant of" so the line not a literal man by man direct line.
A better translation of Luke 3:23 is: "Now Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years old, being--as was supposed--the son of Joseph, who was the son-in-law of Heli, son of Matthat,...
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