Dean Anderson

It is? I always use the fact that Baker Street in London actually exists to "prove" that Sherlock Holmes really did come back from the dead after fighting Moriarty.

Naivete

I thought about reporting him to the supervisor but as I as about to. I noticed he was reading a left behind book so I just walked away insted and now I might have waited to long to do something. I'll pick up the Bible unearthed book tomarrow and start reading it at work. A co-worker of mine who is Christian said she would read the book after me just to see what the fuss was about. I don't plan on staying there much longer just until i'm out of school. It's kind of a dead end job anyway.

I was wondering if there are any books that were written around that time that also mention the names of towns and events during that time. I know there was a lot of buring in rome but I was wondering if there is something else other than the bible to fall back on when it comes to naming historical sites. I wanted to read the book Philo Judaeus wrote but it seems to be out of print I read somewhere on another thread there that he mentiones some of these cities as well. I'm just trying to dig up some other books to show that the bible isn't the only Historical document we've got rather that the bible is historical fiction at best.

David Bowden

Ouch! I suppose you could have tested the legality of the other guy's action by slapping away that book and then bothering him with atheist apologetics.

On second thought, it's probably better that you didn't.

Good book, well worth reading.

Julius Caesar's own Gallic War and Civil War date from about a century before the time of Jesus' ministry; both are rich with geographic information, and the Gallic War includes, among other fantastic things, an account of mythical beasts lurking in the German forests which he apparently took for real creatures.

Josephus' account of the Jewish War against the Romans dates from roughly the time the gospels are thought by many to have been composed, deal with events that took place not long after Jesus' ministry, and have more to do with the geography of Palestine than Caesar's works do. That said, I think Caesar's works are more fun to read.

Tacitus lived through much of the first century AD/CE and covers some events in the eastern empire, but his main focus is on Rome's emperors after Augustus.

David Bowden

Oh, and by the way: Welcome to the forum, Naivete!

Lucretius

I looked at the site in the post and was smiling while I read it just where did this church get the idea that the Hittites and the Assyrians were "mythical" ?
Ancient Egyptian records tell of wars against both the Hittites and the Assyrians and as far as I know no serious historian has ever doubted their existence.