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Associates for Biblical Research (also known as ABR) is a Christian nonprofit organization based in Akron, Pennsylvania. ABR is a Christian apologetics ministry dedicated to demonstrating the historical reliability of the Bible through archaeological and biblical research. The organization's stated mission is

History
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Associates for Biblical Research was founded in 1969 in Philadelphia. It was established by a man named David Livingston, who became the director in charge of all things related to this ministry. It was organized by himself, Rev. Jack Levin, Rev. Walter Kenyon, David Livingston Sr., Richard Harris, Jack Scott, and Everette Meeker. By July of 1970 the first Associates for Biblical Research Newsletter was published. In this first issue, Dr. David Livingston declared that this new organization would be a non-profit organization dedicated to proving the accuracy of Biblical Scripture. He listed six main goals that this ministry would strive to achieve: Investigate positions which seem to contradict the Bible, publish results in technical and lay magazines, use archaeology, science, and Bible to present the Gospel to unbelievers, teach seminars in churches and schools, at home and abroad, seek out and help selected young students in study programs, and conduct archaeological digs and study tours in the Near East. Dr. Livingston had one basis for doctrine in his own words, "The Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety is the Word of God written, and therefore inerrant in the autographs." At the time he was an Assistant Pastor at the Huntingdon Valley Church, but in 1970 he stepped down to commit all focus to his organization.

By the end of 1970, the ministry had departed on their first tour to Israel. During this tour, they also traveled through Rome and Greece. At this time, the newsletter was being mass produced and being given out free of charge. Many of the readers and followers began to give financial support. The very next year was the second trip, again to Israel. In 1972, Dr. David Livingston resigned as director of the Associates for Biblical Research. Two years later, he decided to step back in after the current director, Dr. Jim Reid, passed away. In 1975, Israel, Rome, and Greece were visited again by the organization. In 1977, the ministry toured to Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Rome. Later that year, the organization presented itself and spoke at the Philadelphia Creation-Science Convention.

In 1979, the organization planned its first dig. They had finally received their digging permit and put it right to use. From July 14th to August 14th, they dug looking for a lost city called Ai.

In 1984, the organization had one of their most successful digs in prior history. They dug at Kh. Nisya and discovered large mikveh and a large olive pressing cave. Shortly after, in 1985, the organization had once again a very successful dig. A large amount of Canaanite pottery was discovered. Later that year, Rev. Gene Fackler focuses a radio show called "The Stones Cry Out" on Associates for Biblical Research and all their studies.

In 1994, Dr. David Livingston officially stepped down as director of the organization after twenty five years, largely due to his worsening Parkinsons disease.

Mt. Ebal (2019-present)
In 2019, the Israeli Antiquities Authority granted a dig permit to re-sift through the dump piles from the previous 1980 Manasseh Hill Country Survey excavation by Adam Zertal on Mount Ebal, from the site that Zertal determined to be Joshua's altar. Led by Dr. Scott Strippling, one of the dump piles was re-sifted using the newer wet-sifting technique, in hopes of finding more artifacts previously missed during the standard dry-sifting technique performed by Zertal's team.

One of the artifacts discovered was a 2cm wide led defixio. In 2022, Strippling's team announced they had performed spectral imaging on the internal face of the led, and

Bible & Spade Magazine
When the Associates for Biblical Research was originally founded, it published a regular newsletter about the organization. In 198X, this newsletter became a periodical renamed Archaeology and Biblical Research. Then in 199X this periodical was renamed to it's current name Bible and Spade.

Bible and Spade is published quarterly and features articles about recent archeological discoveries, Biblical research, and updates about ABR as an organization.

The Stones Cry Out radio program
In 1984, ABR began managing Dr. Clifford Wilson's The Stones Cry Out radio program under the direction of Rev. Gene Fackler.

The American Lightweight Championship
On January 15, 1867, a prize fight took place in a field just north of Goldsboro between Sam Collyer and Johnny McGlade for the American Lightweight championship of boxing, and a purse of $2000. It was a bare-knukle fight, which was illegal at the time, so they planned the match for the same day as the inauguration of the Governor of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, the Civil War General John W. Geary, thinking that more attention would be on that event. The York County sheriff arrived after securing a posse with the Zeigle Guards, a military company already on their way to attend the inauguration. However due to a miscommunication, the guards did not get off the train in Goldsboro, so the sheriff was left alone to try and make any arrests, which he was unable to.

The fight lasted 47 rounds in 55 minutes. Collyer was the winner and kept the American Lightweight Title. It was estimated that between 1000 and 2000 spectators were in attendance, including members of the PA state legislature, gamblers and underworld figures Kit Burns and Harry Hill, plus other boxers and former title holders of the day Young Barney Aaron, Dan Kerrigan, Johnny Moneghan and Joe Coburn. It was estimated over $200,000 in bets were won as a result of the fight.

Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster
There was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, directly across the river from Goldsboro, and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979. It is the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. On the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale, the incident was rated a five as an "accident with wider consequences." Residents of Goldsboro evacuated to nearby relatives and motels.

Following the incident, radiation levels in the soil and water were closely monitored. Reports of animals and crop sickness came from farmers around Goldsboro, along with other health effects and cancers of people in the area. A peer-reviewed research article by Dr. Steven Wing found a significant increase in cancers from 1979–1985 among people who lived within ten miles of TMI; in 2009 Dr. Wing stated that radiation releases during the accident were probably "thousands of times greater" than the NRC's estimates. A retrospective study of Pennsylvania Cancer Registry found an increased incidence of thyroid cancer in some counties south of TMI (although, notably, not in Dauphin County itself) and in high-risk age groups but did not draw a causal link with these incidences and to the accident. The Talbott lab at the University of Pittsburgh reported finding only a few, small, mostly statistically non-significant, increased cancer risks within the TMI population, such as a non-significant excess leukemia among males being observed.

Other Hospitals
Tanzania: In 1999, CURE International began construction on a hospital in partnership with CBM in the city of Dar es Salaam. The hospital was to have 50 beds operated by CURE in an orthopedic wing, and 50 beds operated by CBM in a vision wing. After construction was completed, CURE learned that it would not be able to do spiritual ministry in the hospital. As a result CURE did not begin any operations there, and handed over its wing to CBM. The hospital is still in operation, and is now the CCBRT Hospital.

Ethiopia: In 2002, CURE was invited by St. Luke's Mission to build and operate a hospital in Soddo, Ethiopia. CURE constructed a X bed facility. CURE then had an opportunity to build and operate it's own hospital in Addis Ababa. So after completion of building the hospital in Soddo, it handed over opetaions to St. Luke's Mission, and was opened in 2005. The Soddo Christian Hospital is still in operation today and continues to have a close relationship with the CURE Hospital in Addis Ababa.