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Jerusalem Jones
by Kenneth Hanson
The Land of Israel is not just the “Holy Land.” It’s an archaeological mine field, full of contentious debates and controversies that touch the core of faith and identity, across religious and cultural divides. The Bible itself is at stake, along with the events it describes, from Abraham the patriarch, to Moses, to King David, to the days of the Roman empire and beyond. How much is what we might call “history,” and what does the spade of the archaeologist reveal about the timeless characters who occupy the pages of Holy Writ? Grab your fedora, and get prepared for true adventure!
Episodes
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Digging Up Masada
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 Hebrew word for “fortress” is Masada, by which it is still called to this day. Its...
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Digging Up Jesus
Let’s have a look at some things you might not know about how archaeology weighs in on the historical Jesus, whose real name in Hebrew was Yeshua… Just think. If Indiana Jones could search for the Holy Grail, what do you suppose we can come up with? From Bethlehem to Nazareth to Jerusalem, we’ve...
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Digging Up Herod
When we consider the archaeological sites across Israel today, none are more impressive than the remains of ancient structures built by King Herod the Great. With the aid of his Roman allies, Herod conquered the land of Israel, including Jerusalem, and established himself as king in the year 37...
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Digging Up Qumran
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 slumbering ruins at the site of Khirbet Qumran. It takes him six grueling years to excavate the ruins; and what...
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Digging Up the Dead Sea Scrolls
Long ago, pieces of leather, inscribed by learned sages, were rolled into scrolls, to be read and studied only by a select few. For reasons still unknown to us, they were hidden in mountainous desert caves. Then, on a fateful day in 1947, when an Arab lad was searching for his lost goat, he...
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Digging Up Beit Shean
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 Shean, long abandoned but now an archaeological jewel. This ancient and classical Hellenistic city long ago fell into a deep slumber, which only the spade of the...
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Digging Up the Two Kingdoms
What if anything do we know about the pivotal time after Israel's great kings, David and Solomon? What of the dynasties of kings in both the north and the south of the ancient land of Israel? How much of their stories is betrayed by the testimony of the silent stones being uncovered by the spade…
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Digging Up Solomon
The first thing that comes to mind whenever the name Solomon is heard (aside from all his reputed wisdom) is his great temple, which adorned the center of ancient Jerusalem. Some have said that if David represents Jerusalem’s heart, Solomon represents its soul. As with David, the natural place to...
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Digging Up David
Israel's first great king, David, is the focus of modern conflict between competing scholarly camps in the ever changing field of biblical archaeology. Believe it or not, a good number of archaeologists doubt his very existence. If he did exist, they argue, he was probably little more than a…
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Digging Up the Judges
If we don't have firm evidence for the biblical patriarchs, or for Israelites in Egypt, or for an exodus, or for a conquest under Joshua, what are we left with when it comes to the biblical Judges? Some say nothing at all. Others point to circumstantial evidence, gleaned from archaeology. Throw...
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Digging Up Canaan
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? And when did the Israelites as a people come into existence? Can the biblical record...
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Digging Up Jericho
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 was the goal of many of the pioneers of biblical archaeology. After thousands of years it looks like the battle for Jericho…
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Digging Up Moses
Anyone who visits Egypt is likely to come face to face with perhaps the greatest pharaoh who ever lived, Ramses II. Was this the pharaoh of the Israelite exodus? When exactly did the Israelites leave Egypt, and were they ever in Egypt to begin with? These are the questions on which serious...
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The Battle for Abraham
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 Episode One of this new series on biblical archaeology. Let's have a look at the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Land of Israel is not just the “Holy Land.” It’s an archaeological mine field, full of contentious debates and controversies that touch the core of faith and identity, across religious and cultural divides. The Bible itself is at stake, along with the events it describes, from Abraham the patriarch, to Moses, to King David, to the days of the Roman empire and beyond. How much is what we might call “history,” and what does the spade of the archaeologist reveal about the timeless characters who occupy the pages of Holy Writ? Grab your fedora, and get prepared for true adventure!
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Kenneth Hanson
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The Land of Israel is not just the “Holy Land.” It’s an archaeological mine field, full of contentious debates and controversies that touch the core of faith and identity, across religious and cultural divides. The Bible itself is at stake, along with the events it describes, from Abraham the...
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Jerusalem Jones is created and hosted by Kenneth Hanson.
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