Compare what each witness says.
Eight original evidence dossiers pair precise biblical passages with identifiable Assyrian monuments, royal records and chronicle sources.
Scripture is primary for biblical testimony. The reader begins with the chapter and verse, then sees independent material with the object number, publisher and scholarly limitations retained. An inscription may corroborate a named ruler or campaign without confirming every reported detail or theological interpretation.
All dossiers are newly written introductions; their mapped sections are part of the Evidence Register. Text-anchored claims are tracked in the independent-review queue, not presented as peer-reviewed conclusions. See the royal inscription comparison room for directly identified edition lines, and the fall of Samaria and succession room for the debated eighth-century sequence, or exile and provincial life for original tax correspondence, named destinations and archaeological limits.
Eight connected research dossiers.
- 01 / DOCUMENTED COMPARISON
The Black Obelisk and Jehu of Israel
Read the named Jehu tribute on Shalmaneser III's monument alongside the biblical record of Jehu's accession.
- 02 / DOCUMENTED COMPARISON
Sennacherib's prism and the biblical Hezekiah
An object-level guide to royal annals, Hezekiah's tribute, Jerusalem and the differences in source perspective.
- 03 / DOCUMENTED COMPARISON
Lachish: war pictured on Sennacherib's walls
From physical museum panels to the biblical campaign, distinguishing royal imagery from the experiences of displaced people.
- 04 / DOCUMENTED COMPARISON
Sargon II, Ashdod and Isaiah 20
A closely bounded comparison between a named biblical king, an official at Ashdod and Assyrian royal annals.
- 05 / DOCUMENTED COMPARISON
Samaria: Shalmaneser V, Sargon II and the biblical chronology
Why a connected scriptural account and multiple Assyrian reigns must not be compressed into one unqualified conquest story.
- 06 / DOCUMENTED COMPARISON
Deportation in Kings, Chronicles and imperial records
What biblical exile notices say, what Assyrian state policy explains and which human experiences the sources cannot recover.
- 07 / DOCUMENTED COMPARISON
BM 21901: the Babylonian Chronicle and Nineveh's fall
A particular cuneiform tablet brings the 612 BCE destruction into historical focus without collapsing Nahum into a court chronicle.
- 08 / DOCUMENTED COMPARISON
How to compare Scripture, inscriptions and royal art
A worked research protocol for handling dates, translation, ancient source genres and agreement without inventing certainty.
How to check a claim.
Read the Bible passage first. Find the named object or corpus. Compare the ancient genres, chronology, translation and missing voices. If a royal inscription or museum record is cited only for context, do not silently treat it as a direct confirmation of a biblical assertion.
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