My Review of the DVD set Is The Bible Reliable? building the historical case

Is The Bible Reliable? This DVD and study guide is an invaluable resource that anyone with a high school or college student should have. This second DVD set in the TRUE U series by Focus on the Family is very well put together and provides the tools that students need for defending their Christian beliefs. This DVD set focuses on buildin the historical case for the Bible and has 2 disc with 5 episodes each (10 total). The topics discussed are:
1. The Patriarchal Narratives and Documentary Hypothesis
2. The Exodus
3. The Israelite Conquest
4. The United Kingdom of David and Solomon
5. Historicity of the Old Testament
6. The Babylonian Conquest of Judah
7. Canons of Historicity: The New Testament
8. Early Composition of Luke and Acts
9. External Corraboration
10. The Trial of Jesus
The episodes are filmed in a classroom style setting with a professor and several students. Each topic discussed focuses on showing historical and archaelogical evidence that the accounts in the Bible are true. I truly found these episodes to be fascinating. The items found in the excavations of the cities that the Israelites conquered gave extra-Biblical evidence that confirms many of the stories contained in the Bible. What I really like about this series is that the explanations given to give the Bible reliability are from sources outside of the Bible, such as historians and archaeologists.
Even such small details as name popularity and writing styles give proof to the accurate timeline depicted in the Bible. The excavations of the ancient Biblical cities have uncovered pottery, coins,and other items that were accurate to the time period, as well as external writings on tablets and  cylinders that tell the same stories that are recorded in the Bible. All of these give evidence to the fact that the Bible is accurate and reliable.
We actually have been using this DVD with our high school students for our summer Bible study and they have really gotten a lot of valuable information out of it. I am so thanful to be able to equip our student with the tools to help them defend their faith. In a generation when so many of our young people are in need of resources to be able to not only say what they believe, but why they believe that way, this DVD will equip them in one more way to be able to give an answer to those who ask.
I highly recommend this DVD set. The study guide that comes with it allows the students to fill in the blank as they watch the series and has addition study helps in it as well.
I was provided with a copy of this DVD set by Tyndale House Publishers, but was under no obligation to give a positive review.