Author: Mitchell, T. C.
Title: THE BIBLE IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Interpreting the evidence.
Description: London, British Museum, 2001. 5th reprint with corrections 112 pp. Pb softcover. With over 65 b&w illustrations, 3 time-charts and 1 map. The links between archaeology and the Bible have fascinated generations of archaeologists and biblical scholars who seek documentation of events narrated in the Bible. The British Museum's collections include numerous inscribed objects, scripts and pictorial reliefs which provide such evidence. There is, for example, a Babylonian clay tablet which records Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Jerusalem in 597 BC, as narrated in the book of Jeremiah. For this book the author has selected over seventy such documents from the collection of the museum, very good condition

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