"My words shall not pass away"

So excited!  
This will seem dull to some, but to me it's exciting! =)
I was reading where Abram, his wife, his father, and his nephew Lot left Ur to travel to Canaan, but went around by Haran and stayed there awhile.  So I looked up Haran, and found that it was about 600 miles from Ur (a long way to travel back then, esp. with all they had to take with them!), and read that there are frequent references to Haran in Mari tablets and in other cuneiform sources, and that evacuations have revealed a continuous history from about 2000 B.C. to around A.D 1000 or later.  A few ruins have been discovered as well.
I got excited, because earlier this year, we had learned about how archaeologists use three tests to confirm accuracy of *historical documents.*
►The internal test checks to see whether or not the document in question has any contradictions within itself.  We also discussed some Biblical accounts that are assumed to be contradictory, and how they aren't contradictions.
►The external test compares the document with outside sources - other historical facts - and compares to archaeological facts (like the existence of a city, etc.)
The Bible passes this test very well!
[see why I am excited!!!]
►The bibliographic test is the most important.  The document must contain direct eye-witness accounts, or second-hand accounts.  So these were usually recorded shortly after the actual event, and that is a good thing!
Since there are virtually no original documents from any truly ancient work of history (there are always copies of copies), the bibliographic test also asks how may different copies exist that were made by different people.  The more people who give the same account, the better.  This shows that it would be unlikely that the original was modified.
Of course, the Bible passes this test with ease!  =)
• Isaiah 40:8   "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever."
• Matthew 24:35   "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."

And I love finding things that match up.  A reference to a place is also mentioned somewhere else, and I figure out who was at the same place at the same time, or accounts line up in different places.  Too much to explain.  It just amazes me how things just fit together!
I guess that's the part of me that likes how cool it is to find the answer to an algebra equation.  It just all works out so perfectly!  =D  Yes, my kids think that's weird, haha! ;)

sMiLeS,