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One of the best books I have read on the subject of Old Testament Archeology.
While written in the early to mid 20th century, this book is fantastic in proving
the various accounts of the Bible. It makes for some great ready and would
be helpful to preachers and teachers. The information from the various
archeological studies in this book might be invaluable to most believers and
in trying to convince non-Christians as well.

The graphics in this book are numerous in the first nine chapters. They are
quite helpful. The only negative thing is that the images aren't the best. But,
with the aside, you won't go wrong reading this book!

Here is what Wkipedia has to say about the author:
Harry Rimmer (1890–1952) was an American evangelist and creationist.
He is most prominent as a defender of creationism in the United States,
a fundamentalist leader and writer of anti-evolution publications.^[1]
He was the founder and President of the Science Research Bureau,
Incorporated, a corporation set in Los Angeles, California, whose purpose
he established was to prove the veracity of the Bible through studies of
biology, paleontology, and anthropology.^[2] He later became a field secretary
of the World Christian Fundamentals Association in the 1920s.^[3]
He said to be a fellow member of the American Geographical Society.^[4]

He was awarded an honorary DSc by the Wheaton College. He claimed
to have visited 4000 high school assemblies in a 25-year period, or about
one every two days. His principal theme was that "There are no scientific
errors in the Bible."^[9] He was the author of several books including Dead
Men Tell Tales, Harmony of Science and Scripture, and Modern Science
and the Genesis Record. His books sold well; some in the hundreds of
thousands.^[6] However his books came under considerable scientific scrutiny
and criticism. When the Christian American Scientific Affiliation's publisher,
Van Kampen Press, contemplated republishing them, the ASA performed
an evaluation of a representative sample which was highly critical, even
recommending against publication. Edwin Y. Monsma (who would later
become one of the co-founders of the Young Earth creationist Creation
Research Society) gave the opinion that Rimmer's The Theory of Evolution
and the Facts of Science should not have been published in the first place,
contained "inaccuracies and overstatements" and relied upon ridicule.^[10]
Rimmer simply loved to debate; he would debate anyone—atheists,
religious scientists, college faculty, even fellow fundamentalists.^[11]
In a famous instance, he debated another creationist, William Bell Riley
about the nature of the days in Genesis. He was apparently a colorful
speaker and some called him the "noisiest evangelist in America".^[9]

Rimmer contended in some of his writings and lectures that there might
have been several million years that could be squeezed between the first
and third verses of the first chapter of Genesis, a position now described
as "gap creationism" and one that is rejected by adherents of the young
Earth creationist view.^[12] Rimmer was particularly interested in the
Noachian Flood and Joshua's long day. Rimmer maintained that the Flood
in Genesis was only a local flood, another view that is inconsistent with
Young Earth creationism.^[12]
He wrote that "In all of our scientific progress we have not yet discovered
one single fact that contradicts or refutes any statement in the Bible." He
had a gift for producing unlikely explanations to protect the veracity of the
biblical text. For example, Rimmer stated that Jonah could live after being
swallowed by a whale because Rimmer postulated that there is a special
cavity in the heads of whales which are the whales' "breathing tanks" for
underwater breathing. Rimmer also insisted that the passage where rabbits
chew their cuds is the result of a mistaken translation, and claimed that
camels do not have cloven hooves.^[9]
Rimmer tried to use science to prove the veracity of the Bible.
One of the sources he relied on was a speculative book entitled
Joshua's Long Day and the Dial of Ahaz published by Charles Totten,
an instructor in Military Science at Yale in 1890. Rimmer claimed that
the Bible story in which Joshua ordered the sun to stand still in the
heavens had been definitely proved by a Yale Professor (Totten).
An updated version of this claim has it that some NASA scientists
discovered a missing period of 24 hours.^[13] He also promoted a
version of the urban legend of James Bartley and a sperm whale,
which he used to uphold a literal interpretation of Jonah.^[14]

In the mid-1920s, Rimmer offered $100 to anybody who could prove
that the Bible was not inerrant. Although he received an enormous
number of responses, he accepted none as demonstrating a biblical
error to his satisfaction.[/color][color=#202122]
On two occasions claimants took Rimmer to court. The first was in 1929
when a retired army colonel challenged the story of God feeding the
children of Israel in the wilderness by sending so many quail that they
were piled up to two cubits high for a days journey around the camp,
which he calculated would require over 29x10¹² quails (or over 12
million per Israelite). However, the judge, apparently reasoning that
Moses was a more reliable witness than the colonel, ruled against him.
In 1939, the Research Science Bureau upped the offer to $1000.^[15][

William Floyd, Editor of The Arbitrator, a New York atheist magazine,
sued Rimmer on the grounds that he had discovered five scientific
errors in the Bible:

• the six-day creation story;
  
• contradictions between Genesis 1 and 2;
  
• the record of Noah's Ark;
  
• the alleged number of quail; and
  
• descriptions of the camel, the coney, and the hare in Leviticus 11:4-6.

Floyd disclaimed interest in the money, describing his intent as "to
convince fundamentalists, through court judgement[,] that there are
such errors in the Bible."^[16
During the trial, Rimmer defended the Bible with statements such as
"You could get two of every species of insect on the hides of two good-sized
elephants, and they would not, therefore, occupy any additional space in the
ark" and "most all present-day scientists have completely discredited the
theory of the record of the rocks." Rimmer said of his testimony, "I showed
how God pushed the clouds further back and made what the aviators call a
'ceiling' between the clouds and the substance of the earth, and God called
it a 'firmament' and men call this cloudy ceiling 'heaven'."^[17]
Rimmer won the case on a technicality: the particular newspaper advertisement
that Floyd responded to was not placed by Rimmer himself. Despite this, Rimmer
claimed that the trial "ended in legally establishing the position of all who hold that
the Word of God is inerrant".^[16]

Books by Rimmer:

• The Theory of Evolution and the Facts of Science] (1935)
  
• Evidences for Immortality (1935)
  
• The Harmony of Science and Scripture (1936)
  
• The Coming War and the Rise of Russia (1940)
  
• Palestine: The Coming Storm Center (1941)
  
• A Consideration of the Credibility of the Chronology of the Bible
  
• Modern Science and the Long Day of Joshua
  
• Modern Science in an Ancient Book
  
• Modern Science, Jonah and the Whale
  
• Monkeyshines: Fakes, Fables, Facts Concerning Evolution (1926), Los Angeles
  
• The Theories of Evolution and the Facts of Paleontology
  
• Dead men tell tales, Harry Rimmer, Eerdmans; Thirteenth ed edition (1974),
  
• Internal evidence of inspiration, Harry Rimmer, Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co; 7th ed edition (1946), A
  
• Lot's wife and the science of physics, Harry Rimmer, Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co (1947)
  
• Modern science and the Genesis record, Harry Rimmer, Eerdmans (1937),
  
• The coming King, Harry Rimmer, Wm. B. Eerdmans; 2d ed edition (1943)
  
• The crucible of Calvary, Harry Rimmer, Eerdmans; 3rd ed edition (1945) ASIN:
  
• The harmony of science and Scripture, Harry Rimmer, Eerdmans; 12th ed edition (1947),
  
• The shadow of coming events, Harry Rimmer, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; 1st edition (1946)
  
• The theory of evolution and the facts of science, Harry Rimmer, Wm. B. Eerdmans; 7th ed edition (1944)
  
• Voices from the silent centuries, Harry Rimmer, Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co; 4th ed edition (1937),