Key Biblical Findings in Ancient Middle Eastern City

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While some people believe that the Ark’s gold was melted down, there have also been claims that it was taken to a cave on Mount Nebo, Jordan, or to Ethiopia.

ABR’s research is focused firmly on locating the tabernacle site at Shiloh, and Stripling is confident that future digs will deliver results. The dimensions of a “tel” or “mound” at Shiloh, for example, correspond to biblical descriptions of the tabernacle, he says.

“We’re revealing the material culture of the ancient cultures; they often do shed light on the biblical texts,” Stripling added.

This is, however, not the first time that archaeologists have focused their attention on Shiloh. The Times of Israel reports that a major dig at Shiloh in the 1980s by prominent Israeli archaeologist Israel Finkelstein did not reveal the tabernacle.

However, the professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University was not expecting to find the tabernacle, according to the Times of Israel.

Finkelstein, it notes, does not view the Bible as a blueprint for archaeological research, opting instead for an “evidence-based” approach.

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“Over two centuries of critical biblical exegesis and over a century of modern archaeology have shown how complex the biblical text is,” explained Finkelstein, in an email to Fox News. “Reading the Bible, it is important to distinguish historical facts from the ideological-theological stances of the authors. Shiloh is an important site for studying the rise of ancient Israel in the highlands of Canaan. This should be the aim of any excavation carried out there.”

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