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Dating Scriptures It is both important and useful to date biblical scriptures, because this means that we can determine when particular events happened. For example, what time period a particular king ruled, where he ruled and who he ruled over. Archaeology is probably the best method of dating scriptures, as it is accurate and scientific. However, it can cause problems. It can cause disagreements between Rabbis and archaeologists, and even between Rabbis themselves, who have different opinions and ideas about what actually happened, furthermore if the biblical information contradicts the archaeological information, or vice versa. For example, if one archaeologist finds evidence from a period of time and another archaeologist finds evidence of the same event but claims that it dates to a different time period. Instances in which such disputes have occurred are; who was the Pharaoh of the Exodus? And were the Israelites ever in Egypt? There are several candidates...

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