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A long time issues at Cedera Guest, Dr. Paul Meyer is fond of saying that the spade is the Bible's best friend. He's talking about Biblical archaeology.

Well, are there limits to Biblical archaeology? Can we say that archaeology proves certain claims or accounts of the Bible true or merely elucidates those accounts? What are the limits of Biblical archaeology?

Greetings and welcome to Issues etc. Live on this Friday afternoon, August 25th. I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in.

We'll be discussing those limits with Dr. David Adams of Concordia Seminary St. Louis. Then, Pastor John O'Connor joins us for part five of our series. Kids have questions. We'll talk about relationships.

Dr. David Adams is Professor of Old Testament at Concordia Seminary St. Louis. He's author of a column for the September edition of the Lutheran Witness magazine titled The Limits of Archaeology, What It Can't Tell Us. Dr. Adams, welcome back.

Always great to be with you. Thank you, Todd.

How does Biblical archaeology fit into the task of Christian apologetics?

That's a very interesting way of phrasing the question. Because I think if you put that question to most archaeologists, they would probably have to stop and think about it because they don't really think of what they're doing into archaeology primarily in terms of apologetics.

If you think of it mostly in terms of getting to know to understand the world of the Bible better, they're not thinking necessarily of how that understanding is going to be used or might be used by others.

The apologetic task is not one that most archaeologists, even most conservative Christian archaeologists, would have in focus as they do their work.

So it's more of an application of what archaeologists do rather than a direct activity associated with archaeology if that distinction makes any sense as I've articulated.

You say that archaeology neither proves the Bible nor argues someone into the Christian faith. What do you mean by that?

Well, what I mean is simply this. Archaeology never proves anything actually or very little. What archaeology does is provide data.

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