Articles by Patterns of Evidence

Fascinating account of Constantin von Tischendorf’s discovery of the world’s oldest Bible Codex Sinaiticus, one of the most precious Bible manuscripts in the world, 1600 years old

The preponderance of evidence in favor of the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin becomes part of a still larger pattern of evidence that speaks to the truth of the entire Bible.

Deborah Hurn | Patterns of Evidence Summary: Was Sodom in the Jordan Valley, and was this site destroyed by a cosmic airburst? In Part 2 of…

Deborah Hurn | Patterns of Evidence Summary: Numerous media reports have recently claimed the biblical city of Sodom was located north of the Dead Sea…

It is a dramatic and gruesome account recorded in two of the Gospels of the New Testament. Herod Antipas, son of King Herod the Great, had John the Baptist executed after promising to grant any request of a woman who had pleased him with her dance. She asked for the head of John.

According to Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (AD 37-100) these events took place in AD 29 at Herod’s mountaintop citadel of Machaerus. The remains of Machaerus sit above the Dead Sea’s east shore in modern Jordan. Now, a Hungarian Franciscan team of archaeologists headed by excavation director Győző Vörös think they have discovered the pavilion at Machaerus where the deadly dance of Salome, the daughter of Herodias, elicited the fatal pronouncement.