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A news item mentioned on the Christianity Today blog <\/a>(which itself interacts with and quotes Jim West\u2019s blog<\/a>) as well as in newspapers<\/a> highlights a Babylonian tablet that correlates with information in Jeremiah. This is a fascinating discovery, and very interesting for historians. From a historian\u2019s perspective, this just shows that the Bible at times provides reliable information \u2013 but mainstream historians already knew that. What it does not<\/em> prove (and can never prove) is that the Bible is inerrant. Accuracy is not inerrancy.<\/p>\n