COMPARISON OF THE BIBLE AND QURAN - ARCHEOLOGICAL

COMPARISON OF THE BIBLE AND QURAN - ARCHEOLOGICAL

Archeological Bible

Archeology confirms the Bible – By:  goodvideotoshare

In Luke 19:40 Jesus said “if the people keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out” and

that literally is what is happening around the world, stones are crying out with archeological

proof of the Bible.

For the past 150 years hundreds of brilliant scholars conducted detailed archeological

examinations at thousands of sites in the middle-east and have proven that what the Bible

states is true and accurate in every area where its statement could be tested.

The Bible says that the world became so evil that God was going to destroy everything except

Noah and his family through a massive worldwide flood.  God instructed Noah to build an ark

and save the species of animals.  Skeptics claim the ark was a myth but people claimed they

have seen the ark.  It came to test on the Mountain Ararat now called Turkey.  The mountain is

covered with snow about nine month a year preserving the ark.  Marco Polo 750 years ago

wrote about the ark.  Some people claimed they have walked through the ark.  Inhabitants of

Armenia have taken their children to see the ark and have passed this info to their children.

Archeologists have discovered the site of Sodom and Gomorra found in Genesis.  God said in

Chapter 19 that the cities were so evil he was going to destroy them.  They have made some

discoveries at the cemetery that was once Sodom.  They found that the place where they

buried the dead a fire was started at the roof, why was that so strange, conquering nations

wouldn’t bother starting a fire for burial victims because the people inside were already dead. 

The fire did not come from below showing that the fire came from the sky. (Genesis 19:24)

[Ezekiel 16:49]

What about Moses? Did he lead more than a million Israelites out of Egypt into the desert

toward the land God had promised Abraham’s ancestors?  God used the Egyptians to provide

physical evidence that what the Bible said is true.  Archeologist have now found the records

that the Egyptian name the same names as those in Numbers 33 and the sites that Israel

travelled through in the exodus out of Egypt and toward the promise land.  It showed that they

were not made up places, they really existed thousands of years ago proven by the archeologist

today that the accounts were recorded truthfully.

Of the hundreds of thousands of artifacts found by archeologist not one has ever been

discovered that contradicts or denies one word, phrase, clause or sentence of the Bible but

always confirms and verifies the facts of the Biblical records.

Forty years after the Israelites left Egypt in ruins, God led them out of the desert in the land

that He promised their forefather hundreds of years before.  The Bible said the Israelites

crossed over the Jordan River into Canaan.  God commanded them to attack and destroy the

first enemy city, the city of Jericho.  This is found in the 6^th chapter of Joshua and in the book of

Judges.  Some archeologist said that this attack never happened.  They were saying it was a

Hebrew myth but then archeologist John Garstain did the unthinkable and unforgiveable, he

dug up Jericho. (Joshua 6:2)  Jericho had thousands of inhabitants.  It’s walls were 45 feet high

and in some places in excess of 20 feet thick.  It was unassailable except by siege.  You couldn’t

get in.  There was an earthen embankment around the city and at the base of the embankment

there was a retaining wall about 15 feet high and on top of that mud brick wall about 20 feet

high and on the crest of that embankment another mud brick wall about 20 feet high.  It was

very strongly defended exactly as the Bible said, (Joshua 6:4-5).  The stones cry out in Jericho

the evidence that the Bible accurately described its destruction.  More proof that what the

Bible says is true.

A feature that separates the Bible from all other ancient literature is its historical precision. 

Within the pages of the Bible we find many references to events, people and places.  The

science of archeology along with the testimony of secular historical records confirm the

precision of the reference of the various Biblical books.  This minute attention to detail

observed by the biblical writers is unparallel in any other ancient literature. (Don Stewart,

author and teacher)

Archeology Proves the Bible – By: GodIsReal101

The Bible says, Sarah, Abraham, Isaac, Rebecca, Leah and Jacob were buried in Hebron in a cave

purchased by Abraham (Genesis 23).  Tradition said this cave have been located below the

sacred precinct of the friend of the merciful God in Hebron, today a Muslim mosque. 

References as early as the second century BC testifies that this is the authentic location of the

burial place of the patriarchs.  The cave was explored by the Augustine canons by 1119 at which

time at which time they found the bones of the patriarchs.

Many of the people mention in the Bible are confirmed in sources outside the Bible in the case

of royalty many times a likeness of the individual has been recovered.  Over fifty persons

named in the Old Testament are known outside the Bible and we have likeness of twelve of

them.  Some 27 people named in the New Testament are known from other records with six

likenesses surviving.  Four of them are Roman emperors.

Quite a number of Biblical structures have been excavated.  They are: 1) The Tower of Babel in

Babylon where language was confused, (Genesis 11:1-19), 2) The Pool of Gibeon -  where the

forces of David and Isbashet fought during the struggle of the Kingship of Israel, (II Samuel 2:12-

32), 3) The Theater of Ephesus - were the riots of the silversmiths occurred, (Acts 19:29), 4)

Two Stone Pillar Base of Samson - Samson pushed with all his might and down came the

temple of the rulers of the Philistines and all the people in it, (Judges 16:29-30), 5) The Name of

King David - The name of Israel’s second King, David appears in two 9^th century BC text, the

taldan inscription and the Moabite stone.  The Moabite Stone was an extraordinary find in it’s

complete work, 6) Joseph and IMHOTEP, Joseph was Imhotep of Egypt.  National Geographic in

January 1995 describes a man known as Imhotep who saved his country from a famine. 

Imhotep was the architect responsible for building Pharaoh’s tomb completely from stone.  He

was known as a sculptor, priest, and healer and considers being the pre-imp genius of the old

kingdom.  There are many similarities between Joseph and Imhotep.  They both were second in

command under Pharaoh.  They both lived to be 118 years.  They were both architects.  They

both stored up for seven years of plenty.  They both saw seven years of famine.  They both

interpreted dreams.  They both built pyramids and palaces.  They were both physicians.  They

both instituted an income tax of one-fifth.  They both had a knowledge of astrology.  They both

were educated men.  They were legendary historians.  And both were one of twelve brothers

and sisters.

In 2007 Nehemiah’s wall was found.  This discovery causes a firestorm of activity among Bible

skeptics who pointed out the lack of archeological evidence supporting the book of Nehemiah’s

claim of the returning exile Jews who rebuild Jerusalem’s city walls and restored the gates of

the temple.

In present day Jordan, scientists have found a 10^th century B.C. Calba Production center that

coincides with the rule of the biblical king of Israel, King Solomon and his mines – Solomon’s

Copper Mines.

The Dead Sea Scrolls – One of the greatest finds of the reliability of the Holy Scriptures. 

According to the Bible the Old Testament was written between 1500 and 400 years before

Jesus was born therefore it is a great cause of faith when over 300 prophecies written between

1500 and 400 years before Jesus was born were fulfilled by him.  The Dead Sea Scrolls contain

all of the books except Esther.  They were between about 100 or 200 years before Jesus was

born.  The Dead Sea Scrolls prove the Bible is authentic.

ADDITIOINAL BIBLICAL FINDS:

The Palace at Jericho – The royal palace in Babylon

The east gate of Stechem – The royal palace of Samaria

The Temple of Baal – The Pool of Samaria

The pool of Gibeon – The water tunnel beneath Jerusalem

The pool of Heshbon – The royal palace in Susa

The pool of Bethseda in Jerusalem – The Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem

The tribunal at Corinth – Herod’s palace at Caesarea

Revolt of Moab against Israel – Mesha Inscription

ADDITIOINAL BIBLICAL FINDS (continued):

Fall of Nineveh – Tablet of Nabopolusar

Fall of Jerusalem to Nebuchadnezzar – Babylonian Chronicles

Cyrus Cylinder – The Existence of Jesus

Josephus, Suietorius, Thallus, Piny The Yonger – The Talmud, Lucian, Cornelius, Tacitus, Mara Bar

The Tower and City of Babel – Sons of Jacob

The house of Rahab – Behistun Inscription

The Sumerian King List – Jesus Christ Burial Site

Ossuary of Caiaphas the High Priest – The Tomb of David and Solomon

Mernepth – Solomon’s Mines

Evidence of the crossing of the Red Sea – Tel Dan Inscriptions

Amulet Scrolls – Galilee Boat

Baruch Bulla – Ekron Inscription

Monutebal Altar - Ugarit

Archeological Qur’an

History never takes place in a vacuum.  It always leaves behind its forgotten fingerprints,

waiting dormant in the ground to be discovered, dug up and deciphered.

There isn’t much data to corroborate the Quran.  We will look therefore at the claims the Quran

makes and see if they can be proven by archeology.

The Qibla, direction of prayer is the first thing we will investigate.  The Quran said the Qibla was

finalized towards Mecca for all Muslims around 624 A.D. (Sura 2:144, 149-150).  But there is

evidence that the location where Muslims prayed is further north than Mecca.  It is said it is in

north-west Arabia (Crone Cook 1977:23).

There was a mosque built at the beginning of the 8^th century by the governor Hajjaj in Wasit.  It

is the oldest mosque in Islam.  There was another mosque built near Baghdad.  The direction of

theses mosque do not face Mecca but are facing northward toward Jerusalem.  The Wasit

mosque is off by 33 degrees and the Baghdad mosque is off by 30 degrees.

The Dome of the Rock is not a mosque.  It has no Qibla (direction of prayer).  It is built as an

octagon with eight pillars (Nevo 1994:113).  It was used to walk around thus it seems to have

been built as a sanctuary (Glasse 1991:102).  It is said to be the third most holy site in Islam

after Mecca and Medina.  Muslims say it was built to remember the night when Muhammad

went up to heaven to speak with Moses and Allah concerning the number of prayers required

of the believers (known as the Mi’raj in Arabic) (Glasse 1991:102).  Research by Van Berchem

and Nevo found the writing on the walls aimed at the Christians.  The writings attest the

messianic status of Jesus, the acceptance of the prophets, Muhammad’s receipt of revelation,

and the use of the terms “islam” and “muslim” (Van Berchem 1927:nos 215, 217; Nevo

1994:113).

The reliability of Muhammad’s prophethood can be seen in Nevo’s Rock inscriptions.  Nevo

found in the Arab religious texts dating from the first century and half of Arab rule (seventh to

eighth century A.D.) a monotheistic creed.  This creed was not Islam but Islam developed from

it.  He didn’t even find any reference to Muhammad, neither his being a prophet of God. 

Muhammad’s name was absent on all of the early inscriptions, especially the religious ones. 

This is an important fact because in the Sira and Hadith the Muslims were supposed to follow

Muhammad but they don’t’ find these same emphasis in the much earlier Arabic inscriptions. 

You will find Muhammad’s name mentioned on the Arab inscriptions after 690 A.D. (Nevo

1994:109-110).

Another thing of importance is what Nevo called the “Triple Confession of Faith” which deals

with the Tawhid (that God is one), the phrase, Muhammad rasul Allah (that Muhammad is his

prophet), and the human nature of Jesus (rasul Allah  wa-abduhu) found in Abd al-Malik’s

inscription in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, dated 696 A.D. (Nevo 1994:110)!  Before this

inscription the Muslim confession of faith cannot be attested at all.

The Quran was transformed 100 years after Muhammad’s death.  If you look at the quotations

from both the Quran on both the coins and the Dome of the Rock it is not the same in detail as

it is today. (Cook 1983:74) with this difference, how could the Quran be canonized prior to this

time (late seventh century)?  Some people think the Quran was put together in a hurry.  They

believe that there was no Quranic materials in existence in the mid-late seventh century. 

Quranic information came about from outside Islamic literary traditions in the mid-eighth

century between an Arab and a monk of Bet Hale (Nau 1915:6f) but we are not sure if any

changes has been made to represent the Quran of today.

Crone and Cooks’ research state that under the governor Hajjaj of Iraq in 705 A.D. we have a

logical historical context in which the Quran could have been complied as Muhammad’s

scripture (Crone-Cook 1977:18).

Archeology of the Qur’an – By:  QuranRevealed – [YouTube]

Robert C. Greer, Ph.D. author Qur’an Revealed

The archeology of the Quran in the same period.  The city of Mecca was founded in the 4^th

century A.D.  This is important.  According to the Qur’an, Abraham, Hagar, and Ishmael

migrated down from the Palestine area to Mecca which was approximately a 1000 mile trip.  It

was there that the Kabba Altar was built, therefore the Kabba Altar has an Abrahamic

foundation/association and then the city of Mecca was founded shortly after this.  All this

according to the Qur’an would have happened around 2,000 B.C. that’s when Abraham was

alive.  Mecca did not exist until the 4^th century A.D.  What does this do to the story of Abraham? 

Archeology has proving that the city of Jerusalem was founded/existed in 4 A.D. and being that

it existed, all the Old Testament and New Testament stories are true.  But is the archeological

proof the same with the Qur’an because Mecca was founded in the 4^th century A.D. the

Abraham stories related to the Qur’an never really happened they should be regarded as fables.