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listeners in 2024. Subscribe, rate and review issues etc today. etc. One of the side effects of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is that much of the work of biblical archaeology,

especially in that area and it's a very significant area in terms of biblical archaeology

has to be put on hold and then all those projects

have to be restarted some of them may be covered by new rubble.

Well, Christianity today put out an article, Biblical Archaeology's top 10 discoveries of

2023. It's a slow science, but we'll go through those discoveries that made headlines.

Dr Craig Evans is John Besango Distinguished Professor

of Christian Origins at Houston Christian University

and author of numerous books including Jesus and his world the archaeological evidence.

Dr Evans, welcome back.

Thank you, Todd, good to be with you.

So how much has the Israel-Hamas War basically stopped or put on hold indefinitely biblical archaeology in that area?

Well, you know, it has to uh... it's just too dangerous

and of course in this area hopefully will be itself bombed

you mentioned in your opening statement that it could get buried under new rubble

...