#1577
2017-07-04
Shiloh Excavations Resume in 2017
With Scott Stripling
Scott Stripling is once again our guest to report on the end of the Associates for Biblical Archaeology excavation in Israel, this year at Shiloh, since they have closed the excavations at Khirbet el-Maqatir. Shiloh, of course, was the location of the tabernacle and the ark of the covenant for most of the almost 400 years (by the biblical account), between the time of the exodus and conquest and the establishment of the temple in Jerusalem in Solomon’s time. Many years ago an archaeologist told me that there wasn’t much left to excavate at Shiloh but that is apparently not the case, as Scott fills us in on what happened during this first season and what they are looking for in the seasons to come.
tags: Shiloh Tabernacle Ark of the Covenant
#1576
2017-06-21
With William F. Albright, Yigael Yadin, John Trever, Roland DeVaux, Peter Flint, Eugene Ulrich
Twenty years ago, on the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, I produced a 14-minute documentary featuring audio I had collected for my radio program from presentations and interviews. I also included audio from a series of public radio programs produced by University of Wisconsin professor Menahem Mansoor, from tape recordings which he bequeathed to me. These recordings included observations from William F. Albright (whom he had studied under), Yigael Yadin, and Roland DeVaux–key figures in the discovery and excavation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran community. I am presenting this program from The Book & The Spade archives to mark the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
tags: Dead Sea Scrolls Qumran Essenes William F. Albright Yigael Yadin Peter Flint Roland DeVaux Eugene Ulrich
#1575
2017-06-13
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible (rebroadcast)
With Peter Flint
From our archives we present an interview from 20 years ago, when the half-century anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was being observed. Peter Flint, a South African scholar who was a world leader in Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship, directed the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University in British Columbia. We were sorry to hear that he passed away last November. He was 65 years old. This is the second part of the interview, where he talks about publishing the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible.
tags: Dead Sea Scrolls Qumran Essenes Bible Psalms
#1574
2017-06-06
The Dead Sea Scrolls at 50 (rebroadcast)
With Peter Flint
From our archives we present an interview from 20 years ago, when the half-century anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was being observed. Peter Flint, a South African scholar who was a world leader in Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship, directed the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University in British Columbia. We were sorry to hear that he passed away last November. He was 65 years old. Peter Flint was a gracious and informative guest and we were very pleased that we got to have him on TB&TS twice.
tags: Dead Sea Scrolls Qumran Peter Flint
#1573
2017-05-30
The Dead Sea Scrolls at 70, parat 2
With Sidnie White Crawford
More details on what we have learned after 70 years of Dead Sea Scroll scholarship, about the Jewish communities of 2,000 years ago and the culture that gave us the Christian faith. The scrolls were collected by a religious community believed to be the Essenes, but the scrolls don't all necessarily reflect the Essene community.
tags: Dead Sea Scrolls Qumran Essenes