History Substantiates Bible...AGAIN

You'd think after at least a dozen decades of archeology confirming biblical history (yawn) that scholars would see this latest find that does it once again as old hat (Read more about it here and here):

Austrian Assyriologist Dr Michael Jursa made the breakthrough discovery confirming the existence of a Babylonian official mentioned in the Old Testament and connected to the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.

The clay document is dated to the 10th year of Nebuchadnezzar II (595 BC) and names the official, Nebo-Sarsekim. According to chapter 39 of the Book of Jeremiah, he was present at the siege of Jerusalem in 587 BC with Nebuchadnezzar himself.

However, since most scholars, curators and reporters start with the presupposition that the Bible is more myth than fact, discoveries like this will continue to amaze and thankfully, put the fact that the Bible is true on the front page:

On hearing of the discovery yesterday, Geza Vermes, the eminent emeritus professor of Jewish studies at the University of Oxford, said that such a discovery revealed that “the Biblical story is not altogether invented." He added: "This will be interesting for religious people as much as historians."

This is a great quote to end with:

“Cuneiform tablets might all look the same, but sometimes they contain treasure," added Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper in the Department of the Middle East at the British Musem. "Here a mundane commercial transaction takes its place as a primary witness to one of the turning points in Old Testament history. This is a tablet that deserves to be famous."