VFTB 4/10/22: Dr. Doug Petrovich - A Hebrew Inscription from the Conquest of Canaan

A PIECE of broken pottery connects the Israelites to the destruction of a city immediately after Joshua’s “long day.”Archaeologist and epigrapher Dr. Douglas Petrovich, author of Origins of the Hebrews and The World’s Oldest Alphabet, joins us to discuss his new paper on the Lachish Milk Bowl Ostracon, a potsherd he calls a sort of ceramic business card—with writing he describes as a “proto-consonantal alphabetic script.”Doug explains why this bit of ceramic is more proof that Hebrew is the world’s oldest alphabet.After the break: Was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine inspired by “Putin’s Rasputin”?Please note: We’ve changed the URL of our YouTube channel. Subscribe and share at www.YouTube.com/GilbertHouse!——My new book, The Second Coming of Saturn, is now available in paperback and Kindle! Check out free chapters of the book by clicking here (https://www.derekpgilbert.com/category/second-coming-of-saturn/).——Read my novels for free! Iron Dragons and The God Conspiracy are part of Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited program, and they’re linked at my author page: Amazon.com/author/derekpgilbert.——Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details.Get all of our podcasts -- VFTB, P.I.D. Radio, and the Gilbert House Fellowship -- at Spreaker: www.spreaker.com/user/gilberthouse. That's more than 1,400 hours of free archived audio going back to 2005!Check out our weekly video programs: The Bible’s Greatest Mysteries (www.biblesgreatestmysteries.tv) and Unraveling Revelation (www.unravelingrevelation.tv), and subscribe to the YouTube channels: YouTube.com/UnravelingRevelation and YouTube.com/TheBiblesGreatestMysteries.——Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (www.facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great podcasters at the Fringe Radio Network (www.spreaker.com/user/mxpw)!