The Bible and Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period

As a Bible-loving Christian teenager, Dr. John Osgood was captivated by a central question: Does the archaeological and historical record truly confirm the Bible? Like many of his generation, he turned to the influential book The Bible as History, expecting clarity and affirmation. What he found instead was deeply troubling. The proposed correlations not only fell short, but often seemed to diminish the accuracy and authority of Scripture itself.

Further reading confirmed a sobering reality: despite more than a century of intensive archaeological research, the academic world has failed to produce a complete and convincing correlation between secular history and the biblical record.

Convinced that the Bible is the inspired Word of a God of truth, Dr. Osgood recognized that only a true and accurate history can uphold the authenticity of God’s covenants, His promises, and ultimately the reality of redemption proclaimed in Scripture. During many years as a medical practitioner, this conviction grew into a sustained and passionate pursuit of answers.

Unlike most scholars, Dr. Osgood adopted a radically different approach: beginning with the historical reliability of the Bible itself and evaluating all other historical reconstructions and archaeological evidence in its light—not the other way around.

After several earlier publications, this book presents a detailed and original correlation of one of the most problematic eras in ancient history—the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt—a period long resistant to biblical alignment within revisionist academic circles.

Through this complex but illuminating journey, Dr. Osgood invites readers to rediscover confidence in the biblical record and to see clearly that the faith of our fathers was not in vain.