#1528
2016-06-01
Proverbs 31 Woman and Ancient Fabric
With Clyde Billington
The 2600-year old seal of a woman of Jerusalem was recently found in the Givati Car Park archaeological excavation, which prompted the first part of the discussion on this program. We also discussed ancient fabrics and ancient seeds found in another excavation at Timna, and what they may be able to tell us about life in biblical times. Our final item was a comparative test of survey archaeology methods: walking the field vs. satellite archaeology.
tags: Seal Survey Archaeology fabric seeds
#1500
2015-11-03
With Adam Zertal
The second part of our 1993 interview with Adam Zertal focuses on Zertal's survey archaeology in the hills of Samaria, and it's Exodus connection.
tags: Exodus Israelites Samaria Survey
#1444
2014-09-06
With Clyde Billington
Continuing our review of recent discoveries in Biblical archaeology as reported in the summer issue of ARTIFAX magazine we discuss with professor Clyde Billington the discovery of curious mosaics at a Byzantine synagogue at Huqoq, and a shovel survey of what some archaeologists believe may be the real site of the biblical Bethsaida, Khirbet el-Araj.
tags: Mosaics Huqoq Bethsaida Samson Alexander the Great Khirbet el-Araj
#1399
2013-10-23
Megiddo & Shiloh and Survey Archaeology
With Israel Finkelstein
In this archival interview from 1993, we talked about reasons for Finkelstein's soon-to-begin excavation of Megiddo, which continues 20 years later, as well as his work at the Old Testament site of Shiloh.
tags: Israel Finkelstein Survey Archaeology Megiddo Shiloh
#1397
2013-10-09
With Prof. Ken Dark
In the same spirit as the Jezreel Valley Regional Project discussed by Matthew Adams a few weeks ago, Professor Ken Dark of the University of Reading Research Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies is working on a landscape study of the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, particular the Plain of Ginosar or Genneserat, along the northwest shore. While surveying that landscape in 2012 he discovered the remains of a previously unidentified village. Based on a few biblical clues from the gospels, he’s suggested that the site may be Dalmanutha, the place to which Jesus retired after the feeding of the 4,000 in the gospel of Marka (not to be confused with the feeding of the 5,000). .
tags: Ginosar Survey Archaeology Sea of Galilee Genneserat