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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1807851, member: 42773&quot;]Well, now you&#039;ve piqued my curiosity and I&#039;ll probably end up getting the book after all. If Bressett is writing from a secular standpoint, I wonder if he&#039;s bold enough to point out that there is no archeological record of coins in the Holy Land before the end of the 6th century BC - which means that references in the Old Testament to specific coins during the First Temple Period are an anachronism. The author of Chronicles, writing during the Persian Period, assumed darics existed long before they actually did.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that&#039;s just one problem when it comes to comparing the archeological record with the Biblical. I have no problem with it, because my sense of religiosity doesn&#039;t insist on a literal interpretation of scripture, but it might be a thorny issue for fundamentalists. If you&#039;re writing for as broad an audience as possible, I imagine it would take some deft side-stepping to avoid alienating anyone. I&#039;m curious to see how he does it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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