Endnote 6 – First Person: The Bible as a Source of Testable Hypotheses

Reich’s book often refers in a subtly derogatory way to those who conjecture a relationship between archaeology and the Bible. An example: “There were those who jumped right away to the Book of Books, seeking and finding the biblical concept of the ‘gate between the two walls’ (Jeremiah 39:4) and connecting to our discovery” (Reich, p. 181). So far as I could tell, Reich never bothers to consider the specific matter conjectured here.