Those of us who work in the arena of apologetics and polemics are often bemused by the question, “How is it, in the face of clear archaeological and literary corroborative evidence of the historicity of the Old Testament as now exists from the ancient Near Eastern world, that sceptics can continue to embrace the post-Enlightenment mindset that biblical accounts of such events, precisely because they come from a ‘religious’ or ‘theological book,’ must be disqualified as reliable witnesses to the past?”