{"id":7930,"date":"2011-07-26T19:57:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T03:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=7930"},"modified":"2011-07-26T12:03:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T20:03:50","slug":"biblical-archaeology-proof-of-the-philistines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/old-testament-history\/biblical-archaeology-proof-of-the-philistines\/","title":{"rendered":"Biblical Archaeology: Proof of the Philistines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/bible.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another archeological find supports the Bible:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ancient Philistine Dig Supports Biblical  Account<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>CBN &#8211; July 25, 2011<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span>TEL ES-SAFI, Israel &#8212; Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered an altar in  the ancient city of Gath, home to the Israelites&#8217; arch enemy the  Philistines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CBN News was at the dig site when the excavators uncovered the first horn of  the altar. The find is revealing a great deal about the culture of Israel&#8217;s  ancient foe &#8212; and the accuracy of the Bible. <\/span><span><a title=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/insideisrael\/2011\/July\/Ancient-Philistine-Dig-Supports-Biblical-Account\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/insideisrael\/2011\/July\/Ancient-Philistine-Dig-Supports-Biblical-Account\/\">http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/insideisrael\/2011\/July\/Ancient-Philistine-Dig-Supports-Biblical-Account\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Bible tells about the Philistines throughout much of the Hebrew scriptures that we commonly refer to as the Old Testament.<\/p>\n<p>This is interesting as we get closer to the end that archeologists  continue to find more evidence of biblical peoples, figures, and events.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, for those of us who believe the Bible, no further proof is  needed.  But for some who have heard statements from  pseudo-archaeologists that deny the biblical accounts, it may be helpful  for them to realize that as time goes on, more and more archaeological  evidence surfaces that supports the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>Bible prophecy has proven trustworthy and will again.<\/p>\n<p><em>Some articles of possibly related interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomorrowsworld.org\/cgi-bin\/tw\/booklets\/tw-bk.cgi?action=dispbooklets\">The Bible: Fact or Fiction?<\/a> This is a booklet written by Douglas Winnail that answers if the Bible  is just a collection of myths and legends or  the inspired word of God.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/bible.htm\">Read the Bible<\/a> Christians should read and study the Bible.  This article gives some rationale for regular bible reading.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibarch.com\/\">Biblical Archaeology<\/a> This is a website that has more information on biblical archeological as is sometimes known as the Bib Arch site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COGwriter Another archeological find supports the Bible: Ancient Philistine Dig Supports Biblical Account CBN &#8211; July 25, 2011 TEL ES-SAFI, Israel &#8212; Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered an altar in the ancient city of Gath, home to the Israelites&#8217; arch enemy the Philistines. CBN News was at the dig site when the excavators uncovered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-testament-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7931,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions\/7931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}