Biblical Archaeology Today with Steve Waldron

These Silver Scrolls are consistent with what we find in Scripture in many ways, and other explanations for their existence strain credulity. God bless you! We appreciate you listening! Please subscribe and share!

Found in 1979 in the Ketif Hinnom burial complex, these 2 silver scrolls took 3 years to unroll. Once accomplished, the oldest paleo-hebrew Scriptures were found: Numbers 6:24-26, Exodus 20:6, Deuteronomy 5:10, 20:6. Thank you for listening! Please join us daily! Subscribe! Share!

Often cited as the oldest legal code, we don’t actually have a copy, only what was written in other sources. God bless you and thank you for listening!

The Dead Sea Scrolls serve to strengthen our faith in the Masoretic Text, and hence show the Text we have in our hands is what the Prophets actually spoke and wrote. God bless you and thank you for listening!! Please subscribe!

A couple of iterations of this has been found, containing 32 laws. God bless you and thank you for listening!

Dating from 781 AD it documents 150 years of Nestorian Christianity in China. God bless you and thank you for listening! Please subscribe, share, and leave a 5 star review!

Dating to 125 BC, the Great Isaiah Scroll is 25 ft long, on leather. It is in 95%+ with the Masoretic Text. Isaiah Scroll B is virtually identical to the MT. God bless you! I appreciate you listening! Please join us daily!

Golden tongued mummies have been known about for over a century, but the recent discovery of these 2 perfectly intact ones, and another one recently found, has increased interest in their purpose. God bless you and thank you for listening! Please subscribe and share! Please leave a 5 star review!

What do the Dead Sea Scrolls tell us about the Masoretic Text? We find out in this lesson today. God bless you and thank you for listening! Please join us daily!

Discovered on 2 cuneiform tablets in Baghdad in 1945 and 47, they describe 5 classes of law. God bless you and thank you for listening!

Much can be learned by the type of material used, and the different local dialects observed. God bless you and thank you for listening! Come again!

Discovered in 1901 at Susa this 7ft. 4.5 in diorite stele contains 4,130 lines of law. Fascinating! The Bible is true! God bless you and thank you for listening! Join us tomorrow!

Various theories are espoused of who lived at Qumran over the centuries. Was there a Scriptorium there? Did the inhabitants have anything to do with the Dead Sea Literature? Was it a pottery center? God bless you! Thanks for listening! Until next time!

Dating the Dead Sea Scrolls is a meticulous, inexact science. But relative approximations can be made using various means. God bless you! Thank you for listening! Please join us again tomorrow!

The general answer is usually the Essenes, a monastic community mentioned in Jewish and Roman literature. The reality may be a little more complex. God bless you and thank you for listening! Join us daily please! Share.

Over 25,000 archaeological sites have been discovered in the Ancient Near East. None have refuted a single Biblical assertion. God bless you thank you for listening! Please subscribe and leave a 5 star review!

Discovered in 1889 at Nippur, it describes the creation of the world and the Sumerian pantheon. God bless you and thank you for listening! Please join us again tomorrow!

Located in the NW Negev, this has an amazing burning bush phenomenon, as well as altars and pillars, and possibly engravings of the 10 commandments. Fascinating! God bless you and thank you for listening! Please subscribe and share and leave a 5 star review!

Fascinating remains including possible New Testament fragments, and the longest of the Dead Sea Scrolls. God bless you! We appreciate you listening! Please share!

Pretty remarkable similarity between Ovid’s Metamorphases and the Biblical account of the Flood. God bless you and we appreciate you listening!

1,000s of fragments, including the famous Copper Treasure Scroll, and an ancient copy of Samuel are among the many finds in these caves. God bless you! We appreciate you listening! Please subscribe and pray!

In this flood myth, zeus destroys the world by flood because of mans violence. 1 man is saved in an ark, which then rests on a mountain. God bless you and thank you for listening!

We look at all of the amazing finds in Cave 1 such as the 2 Isaiah Scrolls, the Genesis Apocraphon and so much more! God bless you and thank you for listening! Please subscribe and share!

In this legend, Mithra floods the earth. 1 man is saved, in an ark, with his cattle. God bless you! Appreciate you listening!

We learn in general some of the contents of the 11 initial caves, as well as some other discoveries in the nearby area. God bless you! We appreciate you listening! Amen!