The idea that the archaeological data fully comports with the pertinent biblical texts is incorrect, however popular the notion may be within apologetic circles. Artefacts dug out of the ground do not speak for themselves, but must be interpreted... if one is hostile toward the Bible, this will influence that interpretive process, but the same can be said if one approaches the data set with an exalted view of this same text --- while we may never be able to fully set aside respective biases, the attempt to do so is important or else we see only that which we want to see and remain blind to any alternatives. Where would we be in our understanding of the universe or health care if we held tenaciously to traditions about a flat earth around which astral bodies rotated or that malevolent entities caused physical maladies? Religious faith survived those paradigm shifts and should be able to withstand others, provided its source is in a being beyond rather than in a text cobbled together by fallible humans.
Below are listed some of the proofs found by archeology and in the culture of other nations. God kept records in two different places so that one would prove the other. Here is a list of some of the many corroborating evidences:
1. Creation
2. Original monotheism
3. The Garden of Eden
7. The universal Flood (Genesis 6-9)
EVERY civilization has an account of this
8. Mt. Ararat as the site of the landing of Noah’s ark
9. The table of nations (Genesis 10)
10. The Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9)
17 The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19)
18. The commonness in inscriptions of biblical names such as Adam, Eve, Lamech, Jabal, Noah, Hagar, Keturah, and Bilhah (Gen. 2:19; 3:20; 4:19–20; 5:29; 16:1; 25:1; 29:29)
21. The bricks without straw (Exodus 5:7–19)
22. The death of the firstborn in Egypt (Exodus 12)
23. The destruction of Pharaoh and his armies in the Rea Sea (Exodus 14)
25. The destruction of Jericho (Joshua 6)
32. Cities in the Book of Judges (Judges 1:21–29)
33. The Philistines’ use of iron weapons (Chron. 15:16)
55. Repentance of Nineveh (Jonah 3)
59. Ahaz’s money tribute to King Tiglath-pileser (2 Kings 16:5–9)
66. The discovery of the book of the law in the temple during Josiah’s reign (2 Chron. 34:8–32)
67. Hezekiah’s water tunnel (2 Kings 20:20; 2 Chron. 32:30)
70. The captivity of Jehoiachin and the appointment of Zedekiah (2 Kings 24:10–19; 25:27–30)
73. The great stones buried by Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, Egypt (Jer. 43:8–13)
75. The pride of Nebuchadnezzar and the greatness of Babylon (Dan. 4)
77. The capture of Babylon and execution of Belshazzar (Dan. 5)
80. The edict of King Cyrus (Ezra 1:1–4)
81. The wall constructed by Nehemiah (Neh. 1–6)
82. The enemies of Nehemiah (Neh. 2, 4, 6)
83. The synagogue in Capernaum where Jesus preached (Mark 1:21–25; Luke 7:1–10)
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[1]Willmington, H. L. (1987).
Willmington's book of Bible lists. Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House.