Hebrew University of Jerusalem

I accepted Christ at the age of 12 at Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church in Bells, TN. It was rural church and over the years, pastors would not stay long because it was a great place for young pastors to get experience and leave for a larger congregation. At the age of 17, I joined the military and my spiritual formation really began to blossom. After traveling over four continents, I had an experience to learn from different ministers who actually went to seminary as opposed to the ones who

Bible lines up with accepted geography and history. The Jerusalem Siege Tower shows the accuracy of what was described as historical events in the Bible. The Pool of Siloam is found in John 9, and proves that the places that Jesus spoke of while performing miracles really existed, and still do. Finally, the Dead Sea Scrolls validate the authenticity of the scripture that we read today. Through the analysis of the excavation of the Jerusalem Siege Tower,

small amount of artifacts buried with the deceased and previous finds from inside the city to paint a picture of their lives, but there is so much still unknown about the context in which the Philistines lived. When I returned to Johns Hopkins University, I maintained my newfound interest in ancient contexts and I began to channel it into my research. Through my classes, I conducted several projects in

(1996) King David lived halfway between the lives of Abraham and Jesus, in addition to becoming one of the most important leaders for Israel and "a man after God's own heart" ( 1 Samuel 13:14). David's place of birth was Bethlehem, City of David Jerusalem where he grew up as a shepherd, but he is better known for his youthful triumph over Goliath, as well as being a poet, musician, soldier, and a king (Holy Bible, NLT, 1996). King David died at the age of seventy after ruling for forty years.

1050-1010: The Israelites establish a kingdom . 970: David’s son solomon becomes king. He builds a temple in Jerusalem. 931: After solomon’s death, Israel divides into two kingdoms. 722: The Northern kingdom of Israel is destroyed by the Assyrians. 620: A major religious revival takes place in the southern kingdom of Judah. 597-582: Judah and jerusalem are destroyed. 538: The persian king cyrus allows the exiles back. 164: The Jews revolt against the seleucid

* Relationship to Jesus. Brother or step-brother of Jesus (Utley, 1995-2012, The New Oxford Annotated Bible, 2010; The New Oxford Annotated Bible, 2010, p. 2119). * Relationship to the church. Leader of the Jerusalem Church; more specifically, the Christian church in Jerusalem (Hauer & Young, 2012, p. 10; The New Oxford Annotated Bile, 2012, p. 2119). * He was one of the twelve apostles and one of the three pillars of the Church (Utley, Introduction to James, 2012, http://bible.o

If the treasures were real they may have been recovered or ransacked a long time ago. The copper scroll presented a serious problem. It was impossible to unroll them. The two copper scrolls, property of the Jordan Government were loaned to the University of Manchester. In February, 1956 they were dissected and the inscriptions were deciphered. “The method adopted was the passing of a spindle through the scrolls, then spraying them with aircraft glue and baking them hard, which allowed them to

explores the different types of emotions or reactions a person will experience when put in a threatening situation. According to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “while a heartbeat of sixty beats per minute is normal, an increase of up to seventy to eighty beats per minute was observed in subjects who exhibited an increased fear of terror(Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2014). The three theories tested throughout this experiment were the James-Lange Theory, Cannon-Bard Theory, and the Schacter-Singer

would later become known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. This first discovery produced seven scrolls and started an archaeological search that produced thousands of scroll fragments in eleven caves. The Dead Sea is located in Israel and Jordan, east of Jerusalem. The dead sea is very deep, salty, and it's the

produced thousands of scroll fragments in eleven caves. The Dead Sea is located in Israel and Jordan, east of Jerusalem. The dead sea is very deep, salty, and it's