Digging for Truth Podcast

Did Jesus exist? Setting aside whether Jesus is the son of God and savior of the world for a moment, is there real evidence that he existed as a human in history? The short answer is yes, say historians, but there is a small movement out there that claims Jesus was a myth. Dr. Craig Evans refers to these people as mythicists, and talks with Henry Smith about what they claim, and the evidence again...

Morality… where does it come from? Where do good and evil come from? Do they come from God? Does God exist? Deep questions that shape our worldview, and the worldview of Western Civilization borrows heavily from the Judeo-Christian worldview. Henry Smith and Dr. Josh Kline discuss these and other questions related to morality. Dr. Kline is an educator, teacher of world history and western Civ, and...

In the 1880s an archive of clay tablets was discovered in Amarna Egypt. These tablets contain interesting correspondence from the kings of Canaan that were paying tribute to the pharoah in Egypt, and they take place during the early time of when the Israelites were conquering the promised land. Henry Smith discusses the contents of these letters with Dr Scott Stripling, archaeoligist and director...

Noah's Ark, the Ark of the Covenant, Mt. Sinai... Many have claimed to have found these things, but how can you know if they are right? Espcially if there are more than one location that has been found? And what about relics that have been found and are put on display in churches? Like pieces of the cross from Jesus' crusifixion, or the crown of thorns - You can see them, but are they the real thi...

Pastor Bryan Windle joins Henry Smith to talk about some of the archaeology of the Christmas story, related to King Herod and the town of Bethlehem.   Unearthing the Prophecy of Jesus' Birthplace - Joel Kramer The Christmas Story: How Well Do You Know It? - DFT TV The Archaeology of Christmas - Bible Archaeology Report For those interested in the Shiloh Excavation - DigShiloh.org

Why are genealogies in the Bible? And why are the genealogies in Genesis so weird? People don't live that long, so they couldn't possibly be literal numbers, right? Henry Smith discusses a bunch of these questions from his many years of study of Biblical genealogy.    Genesis 5 & 11 Project Proposed Timeline of Earth's History according to Genesis (with Septuagint numbers) Primeval Chronology Rest...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is a prime spot for geologists to research the layers of Earth's history. But if you're a Creationist, you might have a harder time getting permission to research there because your theroies don't conform to the mainstream thinking about how the world was formed, including ideas about a historical worldwide flood from the story of Noah's Ark.   Henry Smith chats with ge...

Do fossils and skeletons from Earth's past disprove the origins of man that are described in the Bible? Are Neanderthals human? What about the skeleton named Lucy? Henry Smith explores these questions and the evidence with Dr. Todd Wood, biologist and president of the Core Academy of Science.   Let's Talk Creation Podcast Is Genesis History? - trailer Todd's Blog HumanGenesis.org - blog

Who was Pharaoh during the Exodus? Was it Rameses? Or was it Amenhotep II? Henry Smith talks with egyptologist and biblical scholar Dr Doug Petrovich about these and other pharaohs that ruled during the centuries when the Israelites lived in Egypt.   Origin of the Hebrews - book Patterns of Evidence: Exodus - documentary   music in this episode is from The Ten Commandments soundtrack, composed by...

Scott Lanser and Henry Smith continue their discussion of Joshua and the Israelites conquest of the promised land, and look more specifically at the city of Ai and some the discoveries that have been made through archaeology at that site.   Taking Down Goliath (looking at sling stones) - Digging for Truth TV Infant Burial Jar found DigShiloh.org The Khirbet el-Maqatir Excavations

The book of Joshua tells the story of the Israelites conquest of the promised land of Canaan. Is it history? or is it just a story... ABR has conducted archaeological digs at a couple of these conquest sites, so Henry Smith and Scott Lanser discuss some of the greater paradigms at play when scientists, historians and Christians debate if the events in the book of Joshua even happened, like the des...

There are a number of ancient manuscripts and translations of the scriptures: the Masoretic Text, the Vulgate, and the Dead Sea Scrolls just to name a few. Henry Smith talks about one of them today with Dr. William Ross, and this one is called the Septuagint, which is the Old Testament translated into Greek. Dr. Ross is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charl...

Ancient myths and poems like The Odyssey and The Iliad are referred to by scholars as "epic poetry." Well there is another ancient story out there that is even more famous, and has some pretty epic archaeology to back it up. Henry Smith talks with Ted Wright, founder of Epic Archaeology, about his ministry of bringing the stories of the Bible to life through archaeology.    EpicArchaeology.org Epi...

The city of Jerusalem was destroyed (for the first time) in 587/586 BC by the Babylonians. As a result of the siege and fire, there is a lot of archaeological evidence that has been discovered in that destruction layer. Henry Smith discusses some of this evidence with Dr. Todd Bolen, professor of Biblical Studies at Masters University.    The Babylonian Exile and the Persian Period articles BibleP...

Can we trust the New Testament? Was Jesus a real person? The four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are all really old, how do we know if what we have today is what was originally written? What about some of these other gospels - the gospel of Thomas or the gospel of Peter?  Henry Smith talks with Dr. Craig Evans about these questions, and his book "Jesus and the Manuscripts." Dr. Evans is a...

Henry Smith and Scott Lanser discuss how ABR got started, and the excavations it has led during its 50 year history, along with how the process of archaeology actually works. They talk about Jericho, Shiloh and the lost city of Ai, and digs at Khirbet Nisya, Khirbet el-Maqatir, Tel Shiloh and Mt. Ebal. In these places were things like the Ark of the Covenant, the Tabernacle, an infant buried in a...

Welcome to the Digging for Truth Podcast! In this inaugural episode, Scott Lanser and Henry Smith discuss the mission of ABR and some of its history and why it got started.  Associates for Biblical Research