Introduction to Biblical Archaeology
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- This is Episode 1 of a new Patheos video series: "Excavating the History of the Bible." Watch Episode 2 on their channel here: • Who Were the Canaanite...
Video Photo attributions:
Special thanks to the Jezreel Valley Regional Project for drone footage of Lachish, Arad, and Megiddo, as well as a bunch of footage of excavations.
Jericho archaeological site, Wikimedia Commons user Abraham, CC BY-SA 3.0
Tell Barri image, Wikimedia Commons user Zoeperkoe, CC BY-SA 3.0
Beth Shean tel image, Wikimedia Commons user Greg Schechter, CC BY 2.0
Mesha Stele, Wikimedia Commons user Henri Sivonen, CC BY-SA 2.0
Ground penetrating radar, Wikimedia Commons user The Official CTBTO Photostream, CC BY-SA 2.0
Tree Rings image, Wikimedia Commons user Vijayanrajapuram, CC BY-SA 4.0
Amphorae pottery image, Wikimedia user Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0
Phytoliths image, Wikimedia user Benjamin Gadet, CC BY-SA 3.0
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This is Episode 1 of a new series I've created in collaboration with the website Patheos: a glimpse into the world of the ancient Near East rooted in anthropological and archaeological methods. Watch Episode 2 "Who were the Canaanites?" at Patheos' TH-cam channel here: th-cam.com/video/z4KN4NIVAqE/w-d-xo.html
Wow. I should subscribe for this!
@@alexibanez271 Do it!
I love your channel which I follow closely. I'd have a question if i may ask. When European realized Islam was Islam, who was the first talking about a different religion? Is there an equivalent to Joseph for Western Europe?
Amazing historical content!
What religion do u adhere to?
"90% of Archaeology is done in the library with research and reading. We don't follow maps to buried treasure and X never marks the spot"
Loved that quote. Then they find the missing piece of the puzzle in the library under a big X. LOL
Who were you quoting from? A modified version of an Indiana Jones quote?
@@NorthForkFisherman bleeding Kansas? I can’t find anything on burning Kansas.
As an archaeologist, I second that!
what is this BCE nonsense. It is either BC or AD. Jesus is real. Believe the bible
Imagine if the Dead Sea Scrolls were never found... What are the chances that a shepherd just so happened to be in the right place? What are the chances that his animal went into a cave, then he threw a rock, then he heard a sound, then he found the scrolls? What are the chances that the scrolls haven’t been plundered, eroded, or washed away? Such a precious discovery!
very lucky
The dead sea scrolls are the written thoughts of a small group of Hebrews living 40 miles from Jerusalem, during the time when Yeshua walked the earth.
There is no mention of Yeshua (Jesus) in their sacred scripture
even though he traveled around Judea as a famous wandering preacher.
@@JamesRichardWiley so what's your point?
@@lmonk9517 no such thing as luck.
@@StallionFernando The guy doesn't know what he's trying to say lol. I'm resisting bursting his bubble. He sounds like a muslim or some kind of Deity of christ denier.
The video is basically what you would hear in "introduction to archaeology" class, but condensed into 14 minutes. This looks to be a very exciting series.
From my understanding biblical "archeology" is frowned upon. Something to do with discarding anything that doesn't agree with the bible .
@DIMITRI VUYADINOV Too bad I grew on the side of biblical archeology that hide and cherry picked the evidence, so excited for this series :)
what is this BCE nonsense. It is either BC or AD. Jesus is real. Believe the bible
what is this BCE nonsense. It is either BC or AD. Jesus is real. Believe the bible
@@56pjr , true, Jesus probably was a real person.
However much of the world doesn't have him as the center of their worldview.
If I remember correctly, the rector of my college used to be a biblical archaeologist. That quickly elevated him from grumpy old priest in the admin office to cool priest who probably has a lot to share in my eyes.
And highly likely to have done as much damage to our understanding of history as advanced our knowledge.
Have to agree with the above reply; he's probably not fit to be an archeologist to begin with, let alone a scientist, if he already has a skewed or biased view. Chances are he delve into archeology hoping to find things that'll support his beliefs and strengthen his faith rather than to simply learn and search for truth. 🤷♂️
@@k31than your conclusion is biased to start with, having a bias doesn't mean he can't be objective in his job, neither you nor I have enough information on the guy to determine how he did his job, so this internet speculations like this one are pointless to begin with 🤷♂️
@@k31than Hahaha yeah to be a good archeologist you must first dismiss out of hand entire written histories 😂😂😂😂 like wtf dude
@@keepthechange2811 You mean you consider the events mentioned in the bible as historical facts? 😂😂😂😂
One of the more interesting things I learned while taking Anthropology classes in school was that a lot of the information about a site was gleaned from the "garbage" pile that is found in every settlement. Broken or unneeded tools or vessels, food scraps and clothing are found outside of dwellings or in a particular area. It's the little and mundane objects that can tell the best story.
That’s super interesting
All glory to the midden piles!!! Your trash is some nerds treasure in a couple thousand years.
Yes middens are fabulous!
nothing gets my serotonin going like an upload from RFB
Dopamine not serotonin
@@kknd-krossfire1114 oh ok thanks !
Actually you’re both correct! :)
I got my degree in anthropology i’m having flashbacks as a freshmen. I never got to take classes on the Biblical Areas this is awesome.
i loved this introduction! took several religious studies courses in uni* and never learned the origins of modern-day archaeology and biblical studies. would love more vids about the more technical aspects of archaeology and analytical methods😍
I would love that too. The field of archaeology is a vast world of theory and methods that rarely gets any attention outside of universities.
I have read a number of books from 1873, The Chaldean Account of Genesis, onward and if memory serves an apologetic book called Biblical Archaeology (~1908) that I made it through half way because it was so bias. Anything earlier than 1860 I find hard to read because of all the multiple S's and F's as if the printers had a limited amount of letter blocks and or English was evolving. There was an awful lot of 'borrowing', my favorite being the Cherub which is a winged bull creature from Iraq not a cute baby angel. I was reading all that stuff mainly looking for cuneiform stories translated into English, half the fun is finding them, pretend it is an Archaeology research challenge.
@@bardmadsen6956 At that time the English language used two forms of "s" simultaneously. If you see an "f" without a crossbar, it's an "s." With a crossbar, it's an "f." I know because I studied calligraphic writings that goes back to the early Middle Ages.
@@jmaraf7741 - Thanks, been wondering for some time now. Reading stuff printed in 1720 takes some time, at least it is not Middle English like Beowulf if I recall correctly.
@@ReligionForBreakfast are you Christian?
just discovered this channel and suddenly I have tons of articles to read
Remember he has a bias even tho claims to not. Take his word with a grain of salt and do your research.
@@jonathansoko5368 what biases? Please include evidence thanks :)
As an undergrad archaeology student with an interest in Late Bronze Age in the Near East, I'm so excited you're doing this series! And I'm glad you went over some of the modern survey styles that archaeologists use (I find few people have much idea what we do when we don't dig). Can't wait to see the Canaanite episode!
Heard you talk about your Dad on the last Sunday Patreon chat...
I am sure he is very proud of you, sir!
You remind me of my eldest son, about your age. He too has recently received his phd, but has decided not to go into the Academia route...and is looking for placement within government or business.
Men like yourself and my son, make the lives of fathers who raised you, absolutely Blessed and proud.
Shout out from the Dads, kudos sir.
Cheers,
Another Welshman, I see!
Your message is a very heartfelt.
I'm a TST satanist, raised under a Lutheran pastor father, and I just wanted to say that your channel has become one of my favorites- it's so cool to take an objective look at things I listened to for years but never really felt connected to. Now as I'm readying myself to enter grad school for natural resource education, I've fallen head over heels for spiritual and religious histories studies and how they're involved with the natural environment- which is something I'm excited to spend time researching for a potential thesis
I imagine anyone who views the BBC TV series named "Time Team" would be aware of what you've mentioned. The only big difference I noticed is when an Archeologist explains it, they tend to drink more beer, tell jokes and do other shenanigans.
This was about a billion times more interesting than I thought it would be.
I remember how the archeology faculty at the University of Arizona trained students by having them dig in the town dump. Students were able to date the layers based on newspapers found.
I just added a similar comment. I missed this one. I majored in Anthropology and Geoscience at the U of A. Graduated in 1988. I took the class from Rathje. He called it "Garbology".
A brilliant idea and obviously very effective!
That is so cool!!
Im so excited for this. This is why i got hooked to your channel in the first place! Aaaaah thank you Dr Andrew!
Your channel is one of my favorites. Thank you so much for your videos! :)
My sister is a Near Eastern Archaeologist and so working in biblical times but doesn't like the term Biblical Archeologically because many would discard many things that didn't back up the bible so hurt many things we could of learned a lot from
@Rusty Shackleford Why is the Bible you read in class 'much different' from other ones?
@@tsopmocful1958 because the catholic church isn't picking which books stay in
@@sdivine13 So are you referring to the Protestant Apocrypha?
There is stigma associated with it based on the title as well. ‘Biblical’ indicating you’re going on a supposedly wild goose chase to prove religion through archeology thus being categorized in the same way as those looking for the city of Atlantis, which is located at Richat by the way. In reality, when you strip away religion from the Bible, Genesis and other Abrahamic texts like the Tora and Quran, you’re provided a clear cut view of what occurred historically and are given an idea of where certain things may be located. An example is with the Mahabharata. Those who were trying to locate the ancient city of Dwarka were laughed at cause it was treated like a myth similar to Atlantis. That was until the 2004 tsunami caused water to recede to such an amount that the ruins of Dwarka was revealed to be on the south western Indian coastline
@@NarasimhaDiyasena I'm very fine with the idea of myths and legends sometimes holding enough grains of truth to tell us about events, people and places that actually existed, as discoveries like Troy, Knossos and Dwarka have clearly demonstrated.
But we must be extra careful before jumping to any conclusions.
So while I'm aware of the fascinating conjectures regarding the Richat, they are still only conjectures until solid evidence is discovered.
Your "...which is located..." phrase is too concrete an assertion to make before any proper excavations at the site have even been attempted, and such premature assertions in public can possibly undermine the credibility of any tentative suggestions or attempts to organise such excavations.
In other words, it can end up creating the very same stigma that your comment mentions, which may negatively influence potential financiers.
You’re the man. Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Keep up the good work! Really well done!
11:50
These marks show the animal was butchered for consumption. At the cutting edge is microarcheology.
I saw what you did there.
Hi Andrew: Just want to say how enjoyable it is to watch your videos. There is a lot of information out there and it is very multi disciplined in nature. You have taken your talents and your research and your ability to explain and really elevated these videos to such high levels. They are a pleasure for those of us with interest but not the time to independently research. Keep up the good work.
Excited for this series!
Love all your videos and what you do. Thanks for the work you put into these. I’m particularly interested in the Canaanites so I can’t wait for your insights on that.
I’m looking forward to this series!
Second
Edit after actually watching the video:
I went to an archaeological field school in 2019 and we all laughed about considering a cardboard and plastic pack of listerine tablets from the 60's as an artifact. Somehow it ended up buried at our site and it was over 50 years old so it counts as "historical", but not by much. Either way it shows that the site wasn't untouched so it's important.
Your story reminded me of Glass Bottle Beach in New York. th-cam.com/video/8xD1K121mbQ/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for this. My first college religion studies class was taught by a biblical archaeologist and totally changed how I approached the text.
You deserve your own tv show.
Dude, thanks for making these videos.
I am so stoked about this!
Fascinating! Your channel is really hitting it out of the park.🙏
Oh my gosh I'm so excited for this.
hey man, as someone studying religious archeology in uni, you got everything spot on (I think, im no expert yet), im looking forward to the next episode, thanks for the videos!
I’m so glad he’s posting again.
I’m just loving these videos. Awesome job 👍🏽
Love this new series
I’m excited to watch your new series. I have always enjoyed watching your videos. I’ve been a subscriber for years, but I am quiet. So I don’t say much. I really like the way you present information. Very straight forward and with as little bias as possible. I like and appreciate that a lot. I just wanted you to know I appreciate your work, enjoy your videos, and will continue to support your channel as I can.
Thank you so much Angela! That is super kind and encouraging to hear you say that. Cool that you’ve been a subscriber for years.
@@ReligionForBreakfast are you religious?
Yes I’m so ready for this
I absolutely love your explanations in this. I feel like I can share this with ppl who don't know anything about archeology and it will just click for them :D
I look forward to many more episodes like this!
I love the very non biased way you present things. I think biblical archeology is interesting, as long as the researchers try to stay open minded about what the information found is saying. We learn more as we get better tools and methods.
It take less than 30 minutes to reach 1,000 views,
That was impressive
Love this series idea ! Whether one is Christian or not it is fascinating what biblical archeology can tell us about the environment and society that these biblical characters may have Lived in !
Great example including the moabite tablet that confirms the kingdom of ancient Israel !
Can’t wait for the rest of the series, hopefully there’s an episode on the Hittites !
Yeah true it's also fun considering a guy named Michael Jones and he's channel inspiring phylosophy is going to soon do an entire documentery on the Exodus so it would be fun
@@jesusirizarryrodriguez835 Haha I love that Channel ! Mike is my favourite contemporary christian apologist !
When I was in college (archaeology graduate), I was rarely taught what was going on with biblical archaeology (I just knew that it studied the area of the levant and kinda had an agenda). I will be looking forward to your videos and see how it really works 💕
Looking forward to this series
Fantastic. I am so looking forward to the next expisode.
Excelente series!
sooo excited for this new series. This is such a fascinating topic that should be talked about more.
also, as of this comment being posted, 0 dislikes. Just the way it should be. ;) keep up the great work.
Thanks for the fascinating introduction to Biblical archaeology!
Thanks again for a great cast, kinda hoping you might do one concerning the new book the immortality key and religious use of "potions"
As a Christian I'm interested I hearing what I learned from this series to inform my faith better. Unlike a lot of Christians I don't believe in biblical inerrancy which makes me willing accept things that appear to contradict the Bible. In the end we'll never know everything but it's good to hear a secular academic perceptive on my beliefs
Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your videos
That was great dude
As always, well done 👏. 👊 respect
Fantastic job! The pottery/iPhone analogy was so funny I had to interrupt my husband’s work Zoom (don’t worry- his camera was off 😆) to play it for him.
It's an on-the-spot analogy! People like change.
your content is so good
The British show Time Team (1994 to 2014) will help folks understand more about the process of archaeology, albeit most of it is in England.
I'd love o see a discussion between you & Inspiring Philosophy. not necessarily a debate, just a collab or a discussion vid.
I'm so excited to see you make a video series on my profession! Though I prefer to be called a Near Eastern or Levantine archaeologist since it encompasses a much larger scope than simply the Bible, which may be off-putting to some for political or anti-religious means
12 Thousand views and 1.5 likes in nine hours, wow that's pretty good. Love your videos, thank you for quality content. 💖
I love this. Small correction: "Beit" in both Hebrew and Arabic means "house of-". "Beit" is the the from of the word "Bait" (=house) combines both the word "house" and the meaning of the word "-of" into one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construct_state
Fantastic video.
You: he did not understand the phenomenon of
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I‘m currently studying ancient history and historical archaeology and archeology that looks into religious belief is super fascinating!
I recently had to write my first presentation and I did it about a graveyard from the early Middle Ages, where they found lots of fascinating clues about religious and spiritual practice.
For example some people had their heads smashed after death and/or were weighed down with stones, which is now believed to be a practice thats supposed to prevent the dead from rising and coming back.
In another example, they found that a group that’s perceived to be rather wealthy and most probably ruling class started to bury their dead with the insides of their hands pointing towards the body, which was considered to be a sign of being Christian and soon after that many poorer graves also included people who were buried like that.
If it's the Mideast, you surely can't always make a "no bombs" promise like that...
Biblical Archeology is having a conclusion and finding evidence to support it.
Which is to say it's not archeology at all.
*Sapient Wisdom:* The bible is to historical accuracy as is the Flintstones are a legitimate prehistory documentary.
Not true in the case of Israeli Finkelstein. He was an archeology who was tasked by PM Ben Gurion to “dig up the Sinai and find the title deeds for Israel.” He was tasked to find evidence of the Exodus story. He didn’t find any, and made a book saying that there is no archaeological evidence that the events in Exodus happened.
*appropriating artifacts to manufacture a desired perception
There are two types of biblical archaeology.
Type one, they are digging in the area, tends to find the time lines don't match the text, no proof for or against the people in the text doing these things.
Type two, they are "finding" proof all over the place, but you can't study the holy relic ( the manufacture date on the base is a dead give away ).
Will you be using the Orthodox Chronology, New Chronology, or both?
Very interesting!
Super excited about this series! Got into biblical archeology after reading "the Bible unearthed" a few years ago.
What about dates grown from ancient seeds?
Interesting video! It would be great if one day you'll speak about the legend
of Eden Garden. It seems this place really existed so much time ago.
Check "the earthly paradise was it in the persian gulf?"
Possibly already mentioned, but a brilliant novelization of biblical archeology is James Michener's "The Source."
I only just read it again recently after reading it as a teenager in the 70s.
It is still a great layman's primer about this subject.
You could tackle ritual & funerary archeology. It colides with the topic of the channel and it has interesting struggles regarding "the meaning of things" (as you can't ask a person 2000 years ago what he believed in).
love it 😘
regarding the vanillin occurrence. Mesoamerican archeology would point to vanilla as a plant being domesticated by the Olmecs(around before the Aztecs by thousands of years), but wild varieties were still been harvested for the vanillin compound as a food additive far before that. It would be more plausible, at least to me, that there was some ancient trade connection from the americas to the old world during or before the bronze age; even if it didn't last long the plants could've still been cultivated in other tropical climates. I'd recommend the AtlasPro where do spices come from video for more info on that kinda stuff in a quick digestible sense to other viewers reading this.
My guilty pleasure is biblical archaeology. I'm an atheist. I'm mostly anti religion. But it has such long ranging consequences in society that i find it fascinating.
Agreed 100%.
Like, 100%.
@Ash Salvatore!! prejudice against non xtians for starters.
Literary and entertainment references.
Basic cultural knowledge that you only learn if you are raised in the predominant religion.
Denial of opportunities because you are in the out group as a non xtian.
@Ash Salvatore!! oh sorry , i forgot, the worlds most persecuted religion would never treat others badly for not following their favorite invisible friend,certainly not the religion of " love"
What I love most about these videos is that I've been to so many of these places you are showing and talking about... The perks of living at what was essentially the crossroads of the ancient world.
Crossroads i like the wording
What do Nazis and Nasis have in common? Besides US funding.. they both are happy to commit genocide against innocent people while stealing their land.
With these new videos be on this channel also?
Hello RfB reading the unknown life of Jesus Christ by Nicolas Notovitch. Could you do a video on this, not him but the suggestions of his writings have me confused/upset/unsure. Thanks. It's says the Buddhists had recorded texts for centuries prior to other groups.
Nice.
Do a video on Constantine Simonides
What is the fortress on the hill that is shown in the opening?
Are you familiar with Dr. Brendon Benz's views on what it means to be a Caananite or an Israelite? they are very interesting.
Did you ever finish your doctoral program?
Woooo stoked for this series! I'm so happy I finally found this channel, I was growing very frustrated that almost every other channel on youtube about this subject approaches it from a religious perspective.
Problem is that archeologists tend to associate anything they don't understand with religion. In other words, got a statue with odd shapes and imagery in it? Well, must be a religious totem. Can't just be some guy putting his own artistic twist into it. Got a door facing east? Must reflect the rising sun which they worship. Can't be because that that's the least windy direction to put it or maybe they use the rising of the sun as a natural alarm clock. It's all subjectively put through the same lens.
Isn't that the truth.
I don't disagree with this. I sometimes wonder how many "religious figurines" in museums were simply children's toys.
It does tend to be the default explanation, unless and until evidence appears suggesting otherwise. Another problem is that the ancients didn't necessarily see religion as we do, as being divided into the secular and the spiritual but everything was often in their minds connected with everything else.
ReligionForBreakfast, what do you believe? Theist, Deist, Agnostic, Atheist?
I love your unbiased nature, that's why I recommend this stuff to my Christian and 'atheist' friends alike, and now I'm _really_ curious where you stand in all of it.
I promise I won't reduce my viewership based on your response.
I want to know more about the vanillin found in a Bronze Age ceramic. How is that possible?
Vanillin is produced by more plants than just the vanilla orchid and it can be formed by treating some other plant materials with heat.
So it’s most probably not imported, but just a chemical trace of something that was done with plants native to the region
Ignore the pseudoscience answer, the real answer is Vanillin is a volatile chemical and was not directly detected but a denatured form. Vanillin is a chemical not exclusive to vanilla actually and is found in a variety of flowers in the old world.
mention of Schliemann.....and no reference to Frank Calvert?
As for finding sites ... over here in this city (in Europe, not related to biblical archeology at all) there is, I believe, a rule that for every construction site in the city, they have to first let the local archeologists survey and possibly excavate the site before the new (potentially destructive) construction can happen. And finds don't seem to be particularly rare.
Here in vienna we have constant small archeological Surveys and digs because every construction site is first quickly checked by archaeologists.
My professors often joke that we can choose our future pay by choosing how many finds we are willing to ignore.
Apparently there are many such survey companies that will happily say that any area is clear if they just get paid enough.
11:01 Regarding what you said about how plastics would be a valuable artifact for future archaeologists,
Sometimes I think about what we leave behind when we are long gone from this world. Perhaps future archaeologists may find something as mundane as a cereal box, or something as valued as a computer. What would they think about us, as they find more artifacts? Should we think about what we leave behind, or try to better preserve the artifacts we value?
Maybe in the future, there will be new techniques of gaining knowledge into the past. Like how we now use residue analysis to see what people ate thousands of years ago, maybe future archaeologists could use new techniques to decipher corroded hard drives, and see what we thought in the past.
But maybe there won't be future archaeologists. A few thousand years ago, there would have been no job as an "archaeologist" or a "historian." Who's to say, a few thousand years into the future, those jobs would be replaced, or gone entirely? Maybe future humans would not be as interested in the past, or maybe they'd just be more forward-facing.
Here's a thought: in the distant future, humans may not be around to be interested in the past. The biosphere could collapse, and geological processes would have more than enough time to wipe out most traces of our existence by the time another technological species arises.
Samson is inspired by Gilgamesh.The Canticle of Deborah is one of the most ancient text in the Hebrew Bible by the language
You are the best. TH-cam should only allow pepole like you in its videos
Could the vanillin have come from a different source, like burned wood?
That's what I was wondering as well. Linares argues that the vanillin concentrations are too high to be from other sources like wood or olive oil, but there's no other evidence of Old World Vanilla species being used this way. It's an intriguing question! www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/biblical-city-armageddon-signs-early-vanilla-and-elaborate-medical-care
Archaeology can tell us plenty about individuals, where there is evidence. Religion tells us a lot about specific individuals, but it requires evidence, and when it comes to archaeology of modern religions there are political and social impediments that often time prevent archaeologists from doing their job properly. We know lots about ancient Egypt and the people that lived there including many many important historical figures, so to say Archaeology isn’t equipped to tell the personal stories of individuals is only specific to biblical stories where there is little to no evidence in the real world or there could be evidence but archaeologists aren’t allowed to dig or there is some other reason it gets suppressed.
It seems somewhat difficult to date pottery considering a person going from novice to master would probably create all types of odd pottery. Maybe they combined different materials with the clay so they could date based on the mixture they were using at various times?
The way you describe biblical archeology makes it sound like historical archeology
Lol hush you
Saying historical archaeology it's like saying archaeology archaeology
It is in the sense of ancient sources documented archeology
My professors use to tell me that archaeology must be anthropology because what's the point if not to understand people?
I'm currently a medical student but my interest has always lain in archaeology, history and anthropology. Any idea how I might enter the field of Biblical Archaeology?
Generally speaking you need a PhD in archaeology. If you’re a med student, you might be able to enter the field as an expert of ancient skeletons/bones.
Just become a fascist and science denier then you'll get right in . Remember you must discard anything that doesn't agree with the bible .
@@ReligionForBreakfast Thank you. I really appreciate it.
@Rusty Shackleford Thank you. I appreciate your insight.