David's Conquest (Episode 15) Archaeological insights on how King David may have conquered the Jebusite city, renamed "Jerusalem." The tunnels tell it all! Dr. Kenneth Hanson, http://drkenhanson.com/

Digging Up Masada (Episode 14)

Sep 6th, 2020 22m 14s

Digging Up Masada (Episode 14) Along the western shore of the Dead Sea, amid the vast and unforgiving wilderness of Judea, we find a precipitous plateau, isolated by millions of years of erosion that turned it into an impregnable fortress. The

Digging Up Jesus (Episode 13)

Sep 5th, 2020 21m 16s

Digging Up Jesus (Episode 13) Let’s have a look at some things you might not know about how archaeology weighs in on the historical Jesus. From the little town of Bethlehem, to Nazareth in the Galilee, to Capernaum, on the shore of Lake Kinnere

Digging Up Herod (Episode 12)

Sep 4th, 2020 25m 22s

Digging Up Herod (Episode 12) When we consider the archaeological sites in Israel today, none are more impressive than the remains of ancient structures built under the auspices of King Herod the Great. From the great Jerusalem Temple to an ass

Digging Up Qumran (Episode 11)

Sep 3rd, 2020 24m 49s

Digging Up Qumran (Episode 11) During the early 1950s the riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls takes a new turn. Father Roland de Vaux, under the supervision of the Jordanian government, organizes a major excavation of the site of Khirbet Qumran. As

Digging Up the Dead Sea Scrolls (Episode 10)

Sep 2nd, 2020 26m 46s

Digging Up the Dead Sea Scrolls (Episode 10) The world changes -- silently and without fanfare -- on a particular summer day in 1947. A goat belonging to a Bedouin flock wanders off among the multiple caves that dot the desert hillsides. Young

Digging Up Beit She'an (Episode 9)

Sep 1st, 2020 19m 27s

Digging Up Beit She'an (Episode 9) It's time to shine a spotlight on one of the most important sites in all of biblical archaeology. It's the Galilean city of Beit She’an, which had important strategic value across multiple historical epochs. T

Digging Up the Two Kingdoms (Episode 8)

Aug 31st, 2020 18m 52s

Digging Up the Two Kingdoms (Episode 8) One of the most famous of all biblical sites, Megiddo, features prominently in the battle for Solomon, for if Solomon where everything he was made out to be, we would expect to find important traces of hi

Digging Up Solomon (Episode 7)

Aug 30th, 2020 24m 32s

Digging Up Solomon (Episode 7) We might go as far as to say that the real history of Israel as a kingdom begins not with King Saul or even King David (the extent of whose kingdom is still very much in debate), but with Solomon, who (for better

Digging Up David (Episode 6)

Aug 29th, 2020 35m 4s

Digging Up David (Episode 6) Israel's first great king, whose praises are chanted in the streets of the holy city even to this day, is also the focus of another conflict, this one between competing scholarly camps in the ever changing field of

Digging Up the Judges (Episode 5)

Aug 28th, 2020 20m 49s

Digging Up the Judges (Episode 5) As Late Bronze Age culture collapsed, culturally inferior settlements arose in place of the earlier ones. That's just what we would expect to find if semi-nomadic tribes were in the process of settling down, an

Digging Up Canaan (Episode 4)

Aug 27th, 2020 21m 58s

Digging Up Canaan (Episode 4) There’s more archaeology being undertaken in Israel and its territories today than in any other location on earth. And yet, the origins of biblical Israel are as murky as ever. Where did the Israelites come from? A

Digging Up Jericho (Episode 3)

Aug 27th, 2020 25m 49s

Digging Up Jericho (Episode 3) Can archaeologists with spade in hand verify the biblical version of the conquest of the land of Canaan by the great ancient Israelite commander, Joshua? That at least was the goal of many of the pioneers of bibli

Digging Up Moses (Episode 2)

Aug 27th, 2020 24m 39s

Digging Up Moses (Episode 2) Can archaeologists with spade in hand verify the biblical version of the conquest of the land of Canaan by the great ancient Israelites commander, Joshua? That at least with the goal of many of the pioneers of bibli

Digging Up Abraham (Episode 1)

Aug 27th, 2020 34m 52s

Digging Up Abraham (Episode 1) Can the science of archaeology confirm the earliest stories of the Bible? Can we prove that Abraham existed? What about Moses? Were Israelites ever Egypt at all? These are just a few of the questions addressed in

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