Questions for Atheists - Have Hundreds of Scholarly Books Documented the Veracity of the Bible?
7What do you say about the hundreds of scholarly books that carefully document the veracity and reliability of the Bible?
Meranda doesn't tell us what any of those books are or what they discuss, so I bring two examples from archaeology that have not been concretely resolved in archaeology without presupposing the Bible is an accurate, historical record.
Since archaeology is cited to validate the Bible being an accurate, historical record, it would be fatally circular to use that presupposition.
With the case of the palace found in Jerusalem (read: not far from the city), what appears to be a grand building that might have been a palace has been found, but the artifacts don't point to it being King David's palace.
Even if it was, it's a leap to go from there to saying the Unified Monarchy actually existed.
The second example is Jericho. Although initial archaeologists presumed evidence at the site confirmed the Biblical account, later studies question that conclusion.
[1] "50 Questions for Atheists," by Meranda Devan, Why God?
[2] "What Do Archaeologists Do With the Bible?" Biblical Archaeological Review
[3] SCHEFFLER, Eben. Jericho: From archaeology challenging the canon to searching for the meaning(s) of myth(s). Herv. teol. stud. [online]. 2013, vol.69, n.1 [cited 2023-08-21], pp.1-10.