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83 Real Bible PeopleMore than faith is required to confirm that people mentioned in the Biblewere, indeed, real people |
The Black Obelisk. King Jehu of Israel pays homage to Shalmaneser III of Assyria.
Did Jesus exist? How do we know? Followers believe—but can you prove it?
How many people in the Bible can actually be confirmed to have existed?
How can we separate men and women mentioned in the Bible from myth and metaphor?
Lawrence Mykytiuk’s popular BAR feature “Archaeology Confirms 50 Real People in the Bible” describes 50 Hebrew Bible figures that have been identified archaeologically. His subsequent follow-up articles have increased the number of figures that can be identified archaeologically to 83. In this BAS Library Special Collection read all five of Lawrence Mykytiuk’s BAR articles that, together, reveal 83 biblical personalities—from both the Hebrew Bible and New Testament—confirmed by sources outside the Bible.
Mykytiuk has supplemented his BAR articles with a complete online list of endnotes detailing the archaeological evidence identifying each Biblical figure. We know that not all of our readers have access to some of the relatively obscure scholarly publications mentioned in his endnotes, so we put together a list of BAS Library-exclusive articles on each of the 53 figures from the Hebrew Bible.
