This is the tape of the first lecture of Ancient Israel. In this particular lecture I just want to cover a few points. First of all the purpose of the class, why do we feel it's necessary to have a class in this subject matter, when at least for the students here at the college you presumably or a ...
This is lecture tape number 2 for Ancient Israel entitled "Archeology Methods". We're going to be spending 3 short lectures on Archeology; I wish we had more time, not just because I enjoy Archeology which is true, but because more than any other influence other than that of Geography, A ...
This is Ancient Israel lecture number 3 "Archeology Chronology", today we're going to continue with this 3 lecture series on Archeology. As I pointed out before we can't exhaust the topic, it's far too big for that, but we need to get a least a basic familiarity with it and how it ha ...
This is lecture number 4 for Ancient Israel, Archeology Problems. In the last few lectures we've been taking a look at Archeology as far as its methods are concerned, familiarizing ourselves with the degree with which it is scientific and also seeing the element of art especially in the area of in ...
This is lecture tape number 5 for Ancient Israel, Historicity of the Patriarchs, Part 1. We read in the Bible in the book of Genesis that after God calls Abraham, or actually not after, but before God called Abraham, Abraham's father Terah in the last part of chapter 11 of Genesis we read about hi ...
This is lecture number 6 in Ancient Israel, Historicity of the Patriarchs, Part 2. Last time we were taking a look at a number of the incidents in the lives, life of Abraham I should say, and those he was associated with and seeing that some of the things that he did, in terms of his relationship wi ...
This is lecture number 7, Patriarchal Life - Part 1, the Ancient Israel class. We're going to begin the closer examination of the lives of the Patriarchs to see the way they lived that life in terms of their social and religious customs and how it fits into the view of second millennium B.C. the p ...
This is lecture number 8 for the Ancient Israel class; Patriarchal Life - Part 2. Last time when we ended the class, I mentioned that it was the opinion of modern critical scholars that the Patriarchs each worshipped one particular God, but they did not worship the same God, and I asked you if you c ...
This is lecture number 9 of the Ancient Israel class, entitled; Geography of the Exodus. With this lecture we begin a series of lectures including one in the Historical Geography class that need to be taken as a unit, that in total will be, 7 or actually 8 lectures dealing with the same, sorry I wil ...
We've been looking at the Geography of the Exodus and of course come to see some of the difficulties involved in trying to actually locate today the places which are mentioned in the Biblical account. Now were about to embark on something that is even more difficult and that is the approach to the ...
Last time we noted in connection with the Chronology of the Exodus that although a very good case can be made based on the Biblical material especially I Kings 6:1 to place the exodus and the conquest on the context of the 15th century date and that this seems to conform very well to the events of t ...
To begin this lecture in Ancient Israel we're going to be focusing on the archeological revolution that took place in the 1930's and 40's especially under the leadership of men like William Foxwell Albright whose considered probably the Dean of Palestinian Archeologists. It is this material ev ...
On the last lecture I gave you an overview of the archeological evidence as it came to life in the 1930's and 1940's. To give you an idea of why there was a tremendous movement away from the traditional dating for the exodus and the conquest and what I have done is to reassemble the information ...
Ok, we're continuing with our investigation of the matter of the Israelite conquest and the exodus from Egypt, probably the most, single most complicated area in Biblical study today. We've seen that what had been the traditional digging of the 15th century, 18th dynasty of Egypt ran into a grea ...
Considering the material dealing with the exodus and the conquest in terms of the Bible and archeology the big problem is that we find it very difficult to match the available evidence from archeology with the Bible in any way that will allow the Biblical accounts to stand either completely as writt ...