Digging Up Masada (Episode 14)

Digging Up Masada (Episode 14) Along the western shore of the Dead Sea, amid the vast and unforgiving wilderness of Judea, we find a precipitous plateau, isolated by millions of years of erosion that turned it into an impregnable fortress. The Hebrew word for fortress is Masada, by which it is still called to this day. Its greatest claim to fame derives from events that transpired at the end of the Great Revolt against Rome, when for three years (70-73 CE), the freedom fighters on this ancient Gibraltar – known as the Sicarii – managed to hold off 10,000 Roman troops. But it’s up to us find the lessons, knowing that those who fail to learn from the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them. Dr. Kenneth Hanson, http://drkenhanson.com/

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Can the science of archaeology confirm the earliest stories of the Bible? Can we prove that Abraham existed? What about Moses? Were Israelites ever Egypt at all? These are just a few of the questions addressed in Episode One of this new series on biblical archaeology. Let's have a look at the “founders” of biblical archaeology, going back to the nineteenth century, and recognize how these “diggers in the dirt” changed forever the way we approach “holy writ.”