Digging Up Masada #14
Biblical Archaeology Audio Podcast with Dr. Kenneth Hanson
Release Date: 09/13/2020
Digging Up Masada #14
Biblical Archaeology Audio Podcast with Dr. Kenneth Hanson
Digging Up Masada #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.
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Digging Up Jesus #13
Biblical Archaeology Audio Podcast with Dr. Kenneth Hanson
Digging Up Jesus #13 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 got it all covered…
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Digging Up Herod #12
Biblical Archaeology Audio Podcast with Dr. Kenneth Hanson
Digging Up Herod #12 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 B.C.E. Herod has been described as a manic depressive, paranoid schizophrenic, with aggressive tendencies.
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Digging Up Qumran (Episode 11)
Biblical Archaeology Audio Podcast with Dr. Kenneth Hanson
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. Dr. Kenneth Hanson, http://drkenhanson.com/
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Digging Up the Dead Sea Scrolls (Episode 10)
Biblical Archaeology Audio Podcast with Dr. Kenneth Hanson
Digging Up the Dead Sea Scrolls (Episode 10) ) The world changes -- silently and without fanfare -- on a particular summer day in 1947. This is only the beginning of an incredible saga of discovery that will bring to light what may well be the most important archaeological find of the 20th century – the Dead Sea Scrolls. Dr. Kenneth Hanson, http://drkenhanson.com/
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Digging Up Beit She'an (Episode 9)
Biblical Archaeology Audio Podcast with Dr. Kenneth Hanson
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. Dr. Kenneth Hanson, http://drkenhanson.com/
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Digging Up the Two Kingdoms (Episode 8)
Biblical Archaeology Audio Podcast with Dr. Kenneth Hanson
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 his kingdom at this ancient city. !Dr. Kenneth Hanson, http://drkenhanson.com/
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Digging Up Solomon (Episode 7)
Biblical Archaeology Audio Podcast with Dr. Kenneth Hanson
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 or for worse) solidified what had been a tribal confederacy into a true monarchy. Dr. Kenneth Hanson, http://drkenhanson.com/
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Digging Up David (Episode 6)
Biblical Archaeology Audio Podcast with Dr. Kenneth Hanson
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 biblical archaeology. .Dr. Kenneth Hanson, http://drkenhanson.com/
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Digging Up the Judges (Episode 5)
Biblical Archaeology Audio Podcast with Dr. Kenneth Hanson
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, and it seems rather consistent with the biblical conquest narrative and subsequent period of the Israelite settlement. .Dr. Kenneth Hanson, http://drkenhanson.com/
info_outlineDigging Up Masada #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 Hebrew word for “fortress” is Masada, by which it is still called to this day. Its greatest claim to fame derives from events that transpired at the end of the Great Revolt against Rome, when for three brave years (70-73 C.E.), the freedom fighters on this ancient Gibraltar managed to hold off 10,000 Roman troops armed with every contemporary siege weapon. The story is immortal, the remains incredible!