A Hebrew Inscription from the Conquest of Canaan

A PIECE of broken pottery connects the Israelites to the destruction of a city immediately after Joshua’s “long day.”Archaeologist and epigrapher Dr. Douglas Petrovich, author of Origins of the Hebrews and The World’s Oldest Alphabet, joins us to discuss his new paper on the Lachish Milk Bowl Ostracon, a potsherd he calls a sort of ceramic business card—with writing he describes as a “proto-consonantal alphabetic script.”Doug explains why this bit of ceramic is more proof that Hebrew is the world’s oldest alphabet.After the break: Was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine inspired by “Putin’s Rasputin”?

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Derek P. Gilbert hosts A View From the Bunker. He’s also the host of the daily news commentary program Five in Ten for SkyWatchTV, and co-host of the weekly video programs SciFriday and Unraveling Revelation with his wife, author and analyst Sharon K. Gilbert. He’s been interviewing guests A View from the Bunker since 2009. Derek is a Christian, a husband and father, and the author of the groundbreaking books The Second Coming of Saturn, Bad Moon Rising, The Great Inception, and Last Clash of the Titans. He’s also the co-author with Sharon K. Gilbert of Veneration and Giants, Gods & Dragons, and with Josh Peck of The Day the Earth Stands Still, which documents the occult origins of “ancient aliens.” Derek is a popular speaker at conferences and churches on the topics of archaeology and end times prophecy. He's a lifelong fan of the Chicago Cubs, prefers glasses to contacts, and he’s been known to sing the high part in barbershop and gospel quartets.