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Best Biblical Archaeology Books for Exploring Evidence of the Past

2024-05-21 aprilmomoffour Archaeology, Bible, Bible Archaeology, Bible verses, faith

I think it is a healthy thing to go digging for physical evidence of the reason for your faith. Faith is a beautiful thing, but it should not be blind. Our faith should be built on evidence. For me, the very first evidence of a holy God was creation and sensing his presence. As a small, four-year-old child, I had never been to church. Yet, there was something about the name and mention of God that always rang true for […]

Stories of Our Boys Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2023

2024-01-09 aprilmomoffour Archaeology, big family life

If you follow both of my websites, you know that I did a top ten list for Gettingmyacttogether.com last week. I would never just shun my original website by not giving it a “Top 10 Most Popular” post too. Over the past couple of years, I have tried to take storiesofourboys.com into a more focused direction. Y’all know I started out blogging about parenting four boys, and my oldest son was absolutely not having it. He was right. You can […]

10 Exciting Archaeology Finds that Support the Bible

2023-05-08 aprilmomoffour Archaeology, Bible, Bible Archaeology, faith

With thousands of dig sites in Israel, scientists are constantly coming across exciting archaeology finds that support the Bible. There are books upon books about biblical archaeology. There is even a monthly magazine that reports on archaeological findings that relate to the Bible. I will link you to some of my favorite archaeology books at the end of this article. But for now, I want to share 10 exciting and relevant artifacts when it comes to the Bible. When I […]

The Silver Scrolls: Even Older than the Dead Sea Scrolls

2020-05-18 aprilmomoffour Archaeology, Bible, Bible Archaeology, Bible verses, faith

***This page contains Amazon links and ads. When you order through these links, I do collect advertising fees.*** The Dead Sea scrolls we have all heard of. They were discovered in the caves of Qumran, by the Dead Sea, in the 1940s. But have you ever heard of the Silver Scrolls? Sounds a little more posh, don’t you think? They’re silver, so it sounds like jewelry. Well, the funny thing is they were jewelry, amulets actually. And what better to […]

My New Book, Tour Israel in Pictures & Stories, with a Giveaway

2020-03-14 aprilmomoffour Archaeology, books, travel

Hurray! It is finished! I feel like everyone already knows this, but I forget that not everyone is a Facebook junkie like me. Many of you may have no idea. How could I have forgotten to ALSO let my blog readers know something that I am this excited about?? Have you ever done something so new and exciting to you that you almost don’t even know what to do next? I mean between the book publishing and the earth-shattering news […]

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How the Sumerian King List Relates to the Bible

2020-02-26 aprilmomoffour Archaeology, Bible, Bible Archaeology, faith

Of all the ancient artifacts I have studied, the Sumerian Kings list brings the largest “wow” factor to me, outside of the claims of the Bible itself. Basically, it is a list of kings, kept by the Sumerian civilization sometime around 2100 BC. The list exists in many different fragments of clay tablets. The largest list is the Weld-Blundell prism, which you can find at Ashmolean Museum cuneiform collection in Oxford. Some of these fragments of the list do not […]