Digging for Truth Podcast

Who was Pharaoh during the Exodus? Was it Rameses? Or was it Amenhotep II? Henry Smith talks with egyptologist and biblical scholar Dr Doug Petrovich about these and other pharaohs that ruled during the centuries when the Israelites lived in Egypt.

Origin of the Hebrews - book

Patterns of Evidence: Exodus - documentary

music in this episode is from The Ten Commandments soundtrack, composed by Elmer Bernstein

Scott Lanser and Henry Smith continue their discussion of Joshua and the Israelites conquest of the promised land, and look more specifically at the city of Ai and some the discoveries that have been made through archaeology at that site.

Taking Down Goliath (looking at sling stones) - Digging for Truth TV

Infant Burial Jar found

DigShiloh.org

The Khirbet el-Maqatir Excavations

The book of Joshua tells the story of the Israelites conquest of the promised land of Canaan. Is it history? or is it just a story...

ABR has conducted archaeological digs at a couple of these conquest sites, so Henry Smith and Scott Lanser discuss some of the greater paradigms at play when scientists, historians and Christians debate if the events in the book of Joshua even happened, like the destruction of the cities of Jericho and Ai.

Genocide in Canaan? Digging For Truth TV part 1

Genocide in Canaan? Digging For Truth TV part 2

There are a number of ancient manuscripts and translations of the scriptures: the Masoretic Text, the Vulgate, and the Dead Sea Scrolls just to name a few. Henry Smith talks about one of them today with Dr. William Ross, and this one is called the Septuagint, which is the Old Testament translated into Greek.

Dr. Ross is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, N.C., and the Septuagint is his main area of academic study.

WilliamRoss.com

The Septuagint: What it is and Why it Matters

Henry Smith, Scott Lanser, and archeologist Dr. Scott Stripling have a round table discussion on ABR's most important artifiact ever found, an ancient curse tablet found on Mt Ebal in an altar that dates back to the time of Joshua. They talk about the Biblical context, wet sifting technology, analysis of the proto-alphabetic writing on the inside of the tablet, and how that writing on the inside is now the oldest Hebrew text ever found in Israel, and its implications.

You are Cursed by the God YHW - Heritage Science Journal article

Joshua's Altar on Mt Ebal - DFT TV

Scott Stripling on Centerpoint - Mt Ebal tablet find announcement